Stephan Pastis

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

I do what makes me laugh.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.