"The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing."

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today ...... It's already tomorrow in Australia."

"It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambi…"

"I never give my work to somebody else and say, "What do you think about that?" I just don't trust anybody. If I think…"

"If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books — but I'm not, so I draw …"

"I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too."

"The Western is our genre in the United States of America. The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the …"

"Sometimes what comes around the corner is better for you than what you're planning to do anyway."

"I don’t try to be a hard guy to work with … but I decide what I’m going to do with a character. I will take direction…"

"It was as if somehow Al Capone had become head of the United States."