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| Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery -- it recharges by running. | | Uncategorized | |
| So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles. | | Choices; Compromise | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience. | | Uncategorized | |
| That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! | | Happiness | |
| That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. | | Uncategorized | |
| The kind of girl I was attracted to in school and eventually married. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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! | | Uncategorized | |
| The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. | | Uncategorized | |
| The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers. | | Uncategorized | |
The timber wolves will be our friends.
We'll stay up late and howl,
At the moon, till nighttime ends,
Before going on the prowl. | | Uncategorized | |
| The whole pleasure for me is having the opportunity to do a comic strip for a living, and now that I've finally got that I'm not going to give it away. . . . Any time somebody else has their hand in the ink it's changing the product, and I enjoy the responsibility for this product. I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. | | Uncategorized | |
| There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is. | | Uncategorized | |
| There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. | | Uncategorized | |
