"I'm a message maker. I create products and ideas that help people connect one heart at a time."

“I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.”

“Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.”

“You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back.”

“One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an ***** to be a successful business person.”

“The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.”

Source : "Vincent Kartheiser Talks MAD MEN, Why People Prefer Don Over Pete, Gender Roles in the 60s, Jon Hamm’s Directing Skills, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2013.

“as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and who controlled the dough. Party labels were merely a way to keep track of the teams; issues were mostly smoke and vaudeville. Nobody believed in anything except hanging on to power, whatever it took. .....”

“That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.”

Source : "Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It", 1936.

“When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead jazz with people like Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley; he's played a lot of fusion with his own groups, with Stanley Clarke; and, you know, he did the rock thing with Frank Zappa. He's written all kinds of big arrangements for people like Burt Bacharach. So, he's covered the board. He's still a great pianist.”