I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.

You know, maybe we don't need enemies." "Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

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

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.