I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information..

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship..

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today..

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy..

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always r….

Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciat….

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive..

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience..

I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me ….

It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is ….

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that….

There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. ….

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!.

I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations..

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allo….

I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could ….

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it..

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different..

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well..

CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show hi….