It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

True poetry is embarrassing.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.