There's more to this world than just people, you know.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.