We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

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.

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

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

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.

The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.