Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.