“If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in th...” — Pat Oliphant Quote

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

We're all idealistic when young.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I realized I have to be politically correct and easy. I was taking myself too seriously, I had become rude.