Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.