I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.