“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.”

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.

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.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

I haven’t smoked marijuana since I was at NYU.

Smoking’s a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody’s nicer. It’s hard to be mean when you’re stoned.

Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.

That’s what I do… Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke… I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that’s my twist.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel