Calvinism

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world.

I wondered, is it better to do the right thing and fail...or is it better to do the wrong thing and succeed? On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction...but on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

We should take pride in our mediocrity.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?
Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

The problem about the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. 

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

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.