I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.