Gary Larson

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.