Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.