“I don’t have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions.”

Almost every cartoonist, when he’s sitting down to draw a funny face.

When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own.

I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.

And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist.

A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs – I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.

Kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he’s drawing.

But when I would write a story – I know it’s going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile – I would, in a way, start living it.

When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on “What’s the next piece I’m going to write, or draw, that’ll pay this month’s rent?” And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.