I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
My childhood is always going to limit me.
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.
Kids don't plan to play. They don't go 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
Love will make a way out of no way.
Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.
In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.
