"I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent."

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Source : Interview with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 25, 2010.

Garry Trudeau

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“I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides that aren't necessarily part of the main story.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.”

Source : "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.
“I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.”

Source : "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.
“Life is a ï¬ght, but not everyoneâ€™s a ï¬ghter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.”
“Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.”
“I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.”
“The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.”
“I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.”

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