As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.