Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many ….

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors..

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear..

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers..

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance..

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with..

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it..

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious..

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been….

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility..

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant..

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence..

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thoug….

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you..

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they wr….

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overt….

The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to….

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls..

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time..

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective..

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent..