History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

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

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. There are many people in America who don't get that.

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?