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

There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

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.

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.

People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was a cartoonist, before I was a cartoon editor, you're rushing to do what is called the batch. When I was doing that, I liked to have, in general, about 10 cartoons.

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