“Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.”

“I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.”

“Never give your heart to a blockhead.”

“Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.”

“I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?""Only if you had your hand stamped...”