Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.