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

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.

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 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.

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.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!