“Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.”

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

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.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

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

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

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

I just became one with my browser software.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper.

Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.