A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren’t for her, I’d be happy.

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.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

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.