I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

I said to myself, how could anyone not have illustrated this before?

The Elements of Style.

I started looking at it, ... and I thought, 'Oh my God, this is like Gertrude Stein wrote this book.' It's so funny and so eccentric. The imagery was so clear that I knew immediately that I was going to illustrate it.