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."

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

Repetition is the death of magic.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.