The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I’ll have a witty and blistering retort! You’ll be devastated THEN.
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market’s every whim and desire.
It’s only work if somebody makes you do it.
You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
It’s not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.
There’s more to this world than just people, you know.
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.
My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
What assurance do I have that your parenting isn’t screwing me up?
I think comics overall would be better. I think there’s a tremendous potential to be tapped.
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I’ll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.