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

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

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

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I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.