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

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

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