The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

I hate to subject it to too much analysis, but one thing I have fun with is the rarity of things being shown from an adult's perspective. When Hobbes is a stuffed toy in one panel and alive in the next, I'm juxtaposing the "grown-up" version of reality with Calvin's version, and inviting the reader to decide which is truer. Most of the time, the strip is drawn simply from Calvin's perspective, and Hobbes is as real as anyone.

There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.

Let it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot!

What we do for a living is so high-pressured and stressful, but this is fun, being in a band with these nice people.