There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.