Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

If you can't win by reason, go for volume.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

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."

Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.

If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.

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