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.
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.
Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
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.
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 thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
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.
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.
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.
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.
At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.
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?
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.
Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.
