Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

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

Good friends are hard to come by... I need more money.