I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.