Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. 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... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

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

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.