Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.