If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.