WATTERSON

Are you making any resolutions for the new year?
Resolutions? ME?? Just what are you implying? That I need to change?? Well, Buddy, as far as I'm concerned, I'm perfect the way I am! For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well, tough beans! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is how I am--take it or leave it! By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an idea how I ought to be! I don't need advice! Everyone can just stay out of my face! [Hobbes, Calvin]

Genius is never understood in its own time. [Calvin]

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor? [Calvin]

I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by Man's destruction of forests. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is that none of it has tried to contact us. [Calvin]

It took hundreds of years for these woods to grow, and they leveled it in a week. It's gone. After they build new houses here, they'll have to widen the roads and put up gas stations, and pretty soon the whole area will just be a big strip. Eventually there won't be a nice spot left anywhere. I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. [Calvin]

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

Somedays even wearing my lucky rocketship underwear doesn't help. [Calvin]

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. [Calvin]

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. [Calvin]