Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.