I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

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 am born here among the monsters

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.

Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.