“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.

Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.

I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

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.