"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."

"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."

"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."

"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."

"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."

"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."

"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."

"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively."

"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."

"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."

"I just became one with my browser software."

"Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character."

"I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents."

"I always thought of Levittown as a joke."

"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr."

"Are we having fun yet?"

"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."

"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."

"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."

"A full, rich drawing style is a drawback."

"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."

"My first character was Mr. Toad."

"If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip."

"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."

"Zippy is living in the moment."

"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."

"All life is a blur of Republicans and meat."