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

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

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.

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

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.

If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.