Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose

The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.