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

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

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.

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 a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

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.