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"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."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
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