My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.

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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.