We're all idealistic when young.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!