Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

We're all idealistic when young.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

There were dragons to slay in the old days.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

Never forget why you should win or achieve your goals and dreams. Once you feel you are losing purpose in the process, remind yourself why you saw the need to begin in the first place, let that drive you.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Its like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you dont know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. Its like the throw of the dice.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.

If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.

Id rather be black than gay because when youre black you dont have to tell your mother.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.

Whenever you're the leader in any industry, you get more headlines.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a snob.

Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

I always set myself huge goals each year, and I'm pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate.