I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

What year is it in your imagination?

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

To err is human

The second hardest part about growing up is trying to figure out who you are. The hardest part comes after you've figured it out and the rest of the world wants to pull you in a different direction.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

I bought some HP sauce the other day. It's costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years.