He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Umica ka hanuHOLD THE BREATHBe patient

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

Of the Sun and the Moon, the Moon is plainly the more important, as it provides us with light when it is dark and most needed, whereas the Sun appears only in the daytime when it is light anyhow.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

When you get to sing with someone you care about, it's magical.