I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I've got to go to school the next day. It's like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.

Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?