Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.