Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.