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"Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."

"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."

"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."

"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either."

"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."

"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."
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"The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country."


"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information."


"I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody."


"But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches."


"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good."


"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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