Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

Sometimes, I just wish.

Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.