I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.

The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind.

The problem with love is this: It dies. And when it does, you die with it.

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

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.

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.