When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

Time will teach you more lessons than I ever can.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.