If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, comics are widely accepted and taken seriously. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.