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I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

God help us to live slowly:
To move simply:
To look softly:
To allow emptiness:
To let the heart create for us.
Amen.

What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny ... Oh my God - this is so offensive.

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.

I had a few ducks as a kid.

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Life is offensive and refuses to apologise

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance

I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Anzac Day, it seems, must now be done with bluster, hoopla and media hypnotism.

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

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

Love one another and you will be happy, it is as simple and as difficult as that

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

I've learned to respect the whimsical.

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.

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

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

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

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Darkness is full of possibility.

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

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

Integrity is an ecosystem.

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

I was a reflective child.

Each day is a lifetime.