If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Do you feel safe there?"Immediately tears come down my face. "Yes.""Why does that make you cry?

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

Trust that life is guiding you and showing you every step that is necessary to learn to be perfect. Have faith in yourself. You'll come through OK. Have faith in existence.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.