It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.