The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

A world view is probably an expression of self.