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.

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.