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.

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

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

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.

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.

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