I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

We're all idealistic when young.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.