A real job is a job you hate.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

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

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

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

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

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

It's always better to leave the party early.

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

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

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!

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.