Garry Trudeau

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you. ”

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. ”

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback. ”

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. ”

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. ”

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination. ”

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. ”

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. ”

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be. ”

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds. ”