If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

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

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don't overlap: the same with comics and animation.

You know, maybe we don't need enemies." "Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.