I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

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.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

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.