I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

I can change my mind, but only the Holy Spirit can change my heart. Divine love can only be divinely imparted.

Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.

I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen.