My first character was Mr. Toad.

I just became one with my browser software.

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

Because celebrities' lives are so visible, I think it makes it look lighter than it is.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.