Stoic Soul Gifts

"The prostate biopsy shows your pain threshold is much higher than normal."

"Don't worry about your purchase not working. Everything we sell here is totally non-functional."

'Just think of it as graphic design, Mom.'

Cat Tie

"I'm the only sane artist in the world."

'Congratulations, dear! Your home cooked dinner was so good you'd think it was an expensive frozen entree!'

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

Reginald Bunthorne

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Piano and Pianist with broken legs.

"Just when you're about to lose faith in humanity, you see Shakespeare in the Park."

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

A woman drawing birds makes them fly around the room.

Great moments in art dogs playing poker, cats playing Pictionary,

Your tiny hand is frozen...

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

No time for sirtaki now, Greece!

Framed Lady

'How was your holiday?' - 'Fantastic! Great weather! Great food! No illness!' - 'So, back to work tomorrow, then?' - 'Yeah, I guess so.' - 'Lousy, germ free holiday.'

Urns in love

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

'And when you're done here honey, I have a nice periwinkle picked out for the foyer!'

Nesting dolls stranded on an island send out nesting bottles with messages in each of them.

Phoenix

'Here, we don't need a retirement plan. If you do your job as we want it, you'll directly go from your desk to hell.'

He doesn't howl at the moon. He prefers to howl into the void.

Comedy Ballet of Marionettes I (Oil Version in Tate Known as 'A Caprice'

Swing dancers.

"On second thought, mabe it would look better over there."

'I miss telling people they can't have a day off to be with their sick children!'

"Hmmm, this might just be not funny enough for The New Yorker."

Hey, how was space? Fine. Jeez. The adolescent astronaut.

Alberich steals the gold

'Ms. Hatton, take a letter, a number and a hike...'

'In this world, son, you've got to learn to push yourself.'