I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I've got to go to school the next day. It's like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

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

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.