Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
When I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing else. That allows me to make sure that I’m really challenging the art, making each picture as interesting as I can.
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
I write separately from the inking up. I’m sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.
That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
I’ve never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my progress; each month I know that I have to produce so many strips, and by the end of the month I’ll make sure that I have.
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
A real job is a job you hate.
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don’t care when I work or how I work.
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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.”
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.