I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

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

CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.