Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.