My father was a dreamer who was always broke. He wanted to be a cartoonist.

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

I like a happy ending. That's what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy.

I took my basic training on a golf course in Florida. Then I was on the boxing team. We did some demonstrations, and they put me in a theater one night and wanted me to box. So OK, I came out boxing with a friend - thinking we would just spar around - but the guy walked out, hit me, and knocked me out with one stroke.

I first sold a cartoon for five dollars. I was in the fifth grade.

I go to the grocery store with my wife. She goes off to buy something. Where is she, anyways? So I ask the manager, 'What aisle do they keep the wives in?'

People take a liking to me like I'm a long-lost friend.

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

If I'm going on vacation, I just work ahead.

Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood, after all. If people don't know how to read, they're not reading our comics.