Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Are we having fun yet?

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Zippy is living in the moment.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I just became one with my browser software.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. I was maybe 8 or 9.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

I am married to work.

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.

'Wings' offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.

New year, same goal.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Kindness is a distemper which is soon cured by experience.

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.