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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.