We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.

I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

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

If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.