Repetition is the death of magic.

Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

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.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.