The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.