I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.

Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

My favorite body part of Kim's: heart.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.