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

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.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

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

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

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.