"It's been so long since you last saw each other. She could at least smile."

“I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.”

Source : "The Far Side of Retirement". Interview with Jake Morrissey, articles.latimes.com. October 7, 1996.

“Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period of gestation then sets in, during which these issues are mulled over. You put them in your mind and consciously or unconsciously work at them at odd hours of the day or night - even at work. It is somewhat analogous to trying to place a name on the face of someone you've met before. Often the solution to a problem comes to you in much the same way you eventually recall the name.”

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”

“The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.”

“i like to think that im helping them by hating them”

“When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.”

“Down time is not the name of the game.”

“Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.”