Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity exercise bulimia and surgery.

In Palm Springs they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity.

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.