I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

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?

Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some gestures were so simple they were beyond him.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

People aren't universally heroic.

Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

It seemed like an interesting movie [Independence Day], and I thought I had a take on the part that was going to be unique. That doesn't happen to me very often.

You must talk to us as equals, or not talk to us at all.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.

Change is inherent in every form.

Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.