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For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you're in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It's a great trick.

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend ... If it weren't for her, I'd be happy.

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

Eternal condemnation is the key to selling doorknobs.

Stupid people and their stupid people ways!

I guess that compared to other comic strips, I'm edgy. But put me along something like 'South Park,' and I'm 'Captain Kangaroo.'

I'm 12 years old in my head.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Everyone cites [Charles Schulz], but it's with good reason. He taught me timing, tone, character development, practically everything.

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

Man, I put myself in a lot of comic strips. Something's wrong with my sense of self.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

Humility is what you strive for when you've failed at everything else.

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

Ohhhhkay... say again but slooooowly.

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for.

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

When in doubt, give a character big, blown-up eyes and puffy lips.

Me no read. Look how smart me is.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

Perhaps it is a secret yearning of all Hallmark employees to use the phrase 'you big fat pain in the butt' in an anniversary card.

A biscuit in the States is something you would put gravy on with dinner, and it's not sweet in the least!

You act like a team player,you be nice to everyone for your entire life,then you die.

I know I can always draw, but I actually love the writing the most.

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

On the list of things I cannot draw, wedding dresses are right there next to cars.

I do what makes me laugh.

If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Having a syndicated comic strip is a great platform for ripping on expressions you hate.

I like to make fun of Jeffy [of Family Circus] the most, because I know the grown-up Jeff Keane personally and enjoy ridiculing him.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.