I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

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?

Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.

Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want it won't satisfy.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

Fortune favors the prepared.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.