The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

What year is it in your imagination?

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?

I can always tell what kind of a time I'm having at a party by the look on my wife's face.

I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.