Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

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?

Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.