I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

Of course one kiss changes things. If it's done right, a kiss changes everything.

I was a swan, but ripped apart and taped haphazardly back together again.

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

Doing the difficult things that you've never done awakens the talents you never knew you had.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?