I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

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.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

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.

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

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.