I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

Next quotes

• Garry Shandling:

  Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can

• Garry Trudeau:

  That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainm

• Garry Trudeau:

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

• Garry Trudeau:

  There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

• Garry Trudeau:

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

• Garry Trudeau:

  Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

• Garry Trudeau:

  I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. I

• Garry Trudeau:

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

• Garry Trudeau:

  I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and chec

• Garry Trudeau:

  Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all