There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.