Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Even if you are 18, my advice to you is: plan for your future.

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next