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.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.