Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, comics are widely accepted and taken seriously. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.