She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

A business is like an automobile. Its people its wheels, their passion its fuel.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.