Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.

When dancing with a pit bull, it's always best to let him lead.

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together.

How our government works... it doesn't.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.