Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

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

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.