I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

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."

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.