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It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.
That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.
I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)
What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.
I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.
For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.
Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.
Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.
Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.