Just because we have birds inside is, we don’t have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers.

No one believing you is a symptom of telling the truth.

I don’t believe in writer’s block, writing well is very easy; it’s writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

Just because a thing can’t be done doesn’t mean it can’t be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don’t have to be cages.

Go down any road far enough and you’ll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you’ll reach the sea.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don’t fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

The first two months led up to the party page (today), then it will follow the Bumsteads on their anniversary trip to Hawaii, where they'll be gone a month, ... All the different (comics) syndicates are doing crossover story lines where they refer to the anniversary. The whole community of cartoonists. It's really a lot of fun.

All of a sudden, big wealthy playboys weren't funny anymore.

How could he not? ... Look at his head: He's got all that hair sticking out. My dad realized he had certain intrinsic qualities, his hair, his eating habits. A lot of funny idiosyncrasies.