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I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

CALVIN:
Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

The best proof of extraterrestrial intelligence is that they haven't contacted us.

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.

Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin

Verbing weirds language.

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

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.

BE CAREFUL, OR BE ROADKILL!

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.

You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules, and rewards.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Wake up, get up ... Shut up. Listen up ... Throw up ... Mix up, Goof up ... Hurry up ... "
"How's your day?"
"Looking up.

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

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

Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.

The score is still Q to 12!

Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them.

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

I'm only civil because I don't know any swear words.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models.

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success ... I'm just here to cash in.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

I'd hate to have a kid like me.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist
how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases ... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

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

Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ... Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone.
-Hobbes

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

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

I'm a misunderstood genius.

I've nearly started!

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over 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

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!
...
Say's the dust speck.

There's more to this world than just people, you know.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.

I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ... and he's in prison ... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

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

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

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

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework ... procrastinating and negotiation.

You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon ... everything's different.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am.
... I've got more brains than I know what to do with.
Hobbes: So I've noticed.

It's always better to leave the party early.

I'm leaking brain lubricant.

There's a sort of jet lag when you time-travel to your own past.

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other ...

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

Good friends are hard to come by.. I need more money.