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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.