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

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

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.

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

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.

Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.