I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

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

United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my own and turning it in to them and having it rejected or accepted, I was working much more directly with the syndicate, turning in smaller batches much more frequently, and getting comments on them. The idea was that they would help me develop the strip and then, assuming that they liked it, it would flow into a normal contract for syndication.