MAY I KISS you then? On this miserable PAPER? I MIGHT as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I TRY not to second-guess EDITORS; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is GOING to MAKE it into EVERY paper every day.

I have FILES, I have computer files and, you KNOW, files on PAPER. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

In sixth GRADE, we all had to write this OPINION paper. Most WROTE about things like why we should be able to chew GUM in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. WRITE it down. EVEN if you write it on a piece of PAPER at home and have your FAMILY witness it, you need to write it down.

I put a PIECE of PAPER under my PILLOW, and when I could not SLEEP I wrote in the dark.

The visionary STARTS with a CLEAN sheet of PAPER, and re-imagines the WORLD.

I was an avid collector of ELVIS' early STUFF; for a YOUNG SINGER, he was an absolute INSPIRATION. I soaked up what he did like blotting paper. It's the same as being in school - you learn by copying the maestro.

The Law is but WORDS and PAPER without the HANDS of swords of men.

I don't KNOW how to PLAN my WAY out of a PAPER BAG.

Each MORNING my CHARACTERS greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's PROGRESS through the dazzling QUICKSAND the marsh of blank paper.

I PULLED COTTON at 6 years old and worked on the peanut FARM and paper route.

If they GIVE you RULED PAPER, WRITE the other WAY.

I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I WROTE when I could. Weekends were good TYPEWRITER TIME. Now, it's whenever I feel there's something to be PUT on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I ALWAYS write in the notebooks at night.

GROWING up, 'Newsday' was the PAPER that was delivered to my doorstep EVERY DAY.