If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

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.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.