“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.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.

How can anyone be against love?

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.