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" Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't? "

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" I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. "

" The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure. "

" There is nothing worse than annotated humour. "

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

" When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you. "

" I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing. "

" The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to. "

" In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. "

" In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. "

" I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent. "

" Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. "

" For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend. "

" Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. "

" Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. "

" I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day. "

" Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. "

" In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. "

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" Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. "

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" I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant. "