Design Is Important Because Chaos Is So

I Was Doing Cartoons And Mocking White Liberals, Mocking The Attitude Of Government Who Said To Go Slow, While Intending To Do Absolutely Nothing For Black People, Then Called Negroes. And I Had A Lot Of Fun And I Expressed A Lot Of Anger. That Was A Thing That Was Important To Know At That Time. As I Was Emerging Into More And More Into Politics That I Was Angry.

When You Do The Kind Of Work I Do, Everything Is Challenging, But Probably The Most Challenging Thing Is Getting Up In The Morning And Getting On With It Because It's So Easy To Stay In Bed And Not Get On With It.

It Is Not Size Or Age That Separates Children From Adults. It Is Responsibility.

I Think A Play Can Do Almost Anything, Because It's Also A Static Form, Much More So Than In A Movie. In A Movie You Can Move The Scenery, You Can Do Anything Any Way. A Cartoon, Happens In A Limited Amount Of Space And A Limited Amount Of Time, And You Can Only Get So Many Words Before The Reader's Gonna Get Impatient. All Of These Forms That I Enjoy Are In A Sense A Slight Of Hand, Where You Have To Suggest Much More Than You Really Show. You Have To, In A Sense, Seduce The Reader And Trick The Reader Or The Audience Into Going With You.

Whatever New York Loses, If You Go To Other Cities Around The World, Or Around The Country, New York Still Has A Kind Of Energy Level You Find Nowhere Else. Paris Doesn't Have It, London Doesn't Have It, San Francisco, A Great City, Doesn't Have It.