I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

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?

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.