Whatever New York Loses, If You Go

There's Some Brain Damage, But It May Be That Very Brain Damage That Allows Me To Do The Work I Do.

I Come Out Of A Cold War Sensibility, A Cold War Mentality, And During Those Cold War Years, I Used To Know, I Thought, The Answers To Everything. And Since The End Of The Cold War, I'm Just A Dumb As Everyone Else.

Cartoons Were Very Conservative. The Country Was Very Conservative. Although The Liberals Were Allegedly In Charge For A Long Time, There Was A Very Acceptable Balance What People Would Talk About In Public. And I Wanted To Stretch Those And Move Further Out. And As The Civil Rights Movement Began, I Started Doing Cartoons On That And On Sit-ins And I Was, Along With Bill Mauldin, A Great Cartoonist Out Of World War Ii, Arguably One Of Two White Cartoonists Doing This Kind Of Work, Bill And Me.

We Want Playmates We Can Own.

When I Write A Play, My Whole Intent At Bottom Is To Get The Audience To Be In The Cast, To Get That Audience On Stage With The Actors And To Get Them Thoroughly Involved In What's Going On.