Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.

There is no Algorithm for Humor

While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.

Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'd be kicked right out the door.

The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

Doing what you love is a sacred life.

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

Some of the greater things are unseen. That's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.

We have the best military in the world.

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

My son has died of AIDS.

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.