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.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

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

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

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.

If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.