As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

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?

You can't really move forward until you look back.[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

Most turnarounds don’t turn.

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.