Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that's just fascinating.

The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.