gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

What year is it in your imagination?

No matter how crazy or hard a man acts sometimes he has a soft side.

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.