I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Don't hide from love Walker, be open to it and it will find you." -Sadie

God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

What lies lurk in kisses.

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.