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" 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. "

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" Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day. "

Garry Trudeau

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" When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor. "

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

" There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives. "

" As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table. "

" 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. "

" Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds. "

" 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. "

" I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me. "

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

Garry Trudeau

Kid

School

" There is nothing worse than annotated humour. "

" 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. "

" That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings. "

" 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. "

Garry Trudeau

You

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

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

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

" 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. "

Garry Trudeau

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View

" Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. "

" I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. "

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

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

" Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military. "

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

" Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables. "

Garry Trudeau

Ideas

Vegetables

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

Garry Trudeau

Collective

Place

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

Garry Trudeau

Live

People

" Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback. "

" 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. "

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