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.

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

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.