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" Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better. "

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" I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life? "

Garry Trudeau

Yourself

Think

Saying

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

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

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

Garry Trudeau

Ideas

Vegetables

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. "

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

" 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. "

" I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career. "

" 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. "

Garry Trudeau

Day

Well-Spent

" 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. "

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

" I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. "

Garry Trudeau

Work

Just

" 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

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

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

Garry Trudeau

Kid

School

" 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. "

" I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be. "

Garry Trudeau

Work

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing worse than annotated humour. "