The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."

Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

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

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.

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