Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

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

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

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."

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

Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!