I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

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.

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.

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

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