The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

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 writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."

Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.