While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

Life is too short to spend another moment imprisoned by the will of another.

Should National Security Issues be decided by a Local Referendum?

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.