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

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.

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.

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

The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.

The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.