Writing, I Explained, Was Mainly An Attempt

When People Started Reading Me And Talking To Me About The Work, They Didn't Say How Funny, Or How Satiric, Or How Brilliant, Or How This Or How That, They Said, How'd You Get Away With It? How'd You Get That Into Print?

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.

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.

I Have No Sense Of Direction; I Never Know Where I Am. When I Back Up A Car, I'm More Likely To Hit What's Behind Me Than Not, Because I Have No Vision For It. I've Never Been Able To Play Games Or Play Cards Because I Can't In My Head Get The Next Move. I've Never Been Able To Balance A Checkbook. So There's Some Brain Damage, But It May Be That Very Brain Damage That Allows Me To Do The Work I Do. I've Never Met A Cartoonist Who Isn't Quirky Or Weird In Some Ways.

Design Is Important Because Chaos Is So Hard.