The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Love is the opposite of good sense.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.