Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

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 get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

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.