If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

Theres no mystery-the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read.

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

It don't make no difference what is is, a woman'll buy anything she thinks a store is losin' money on.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.

Your wedding will not be what you think it is going to be, no matter what you think it is going to be.

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

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