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"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
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"Take a giant drink of natures endless stream let it spout from your mouth in words so serene."

"Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return. Do not so."

"He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods, the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted."

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."

"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."
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"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."

"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."

"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."

"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."

"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."

"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."

"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."

"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
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