That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. |
The kind of girl I was attracted to in school and eventually married. |
The problem with people is that they're only human. |
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. |
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! |
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it. |
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. |
There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is. |
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. |
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! |