“I’ve been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he’s already a caricature, to make him normal looking.”

I like to make myself laugh. When I’m just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to come up with ideas, I try not to worry about aim right away. I’m just sort of shooting in all directions.

I’m an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection’s out of the question.

I’m not a good businessman and I don’t promote myself particularly well. It’s best I don’t talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

The dread was built into the 2016 election – a little spoonful of dread.

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.

A cartoonist’s style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

I don’t know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I’d get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

I felt it was more fun to knock people down than to build them up. I seemed to get a better reaction from my peers and from my friends when I was mocking stuff – which isn’t necessarily anything to be too proud of.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you’re really saying what you need to say in that.

If you’re asking me what I love, it’s that point where I’m just scribbling and trying to make myself laugh and trying to outrage myself. Getting in that frame of mind where the more you laugh the more you laugh – I think that’s what I’m attempting to do.

You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

We have a society that’s trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone

My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.

We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we’ll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can’t talk about.

I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can’t go home again; but that doesn’t mean you’re not free to try.