The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

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 himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.