You know, maybe we don't need enemies." "Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

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

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

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