In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose

I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked.