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For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

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

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

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.

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

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, _x000D_ you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

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

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

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 write happy endings.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are

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 know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

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

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

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

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

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

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