The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

Verbing weirds language.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.