I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

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.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

I'd hate to have a kid like me.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.