The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom.

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.