I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.