"CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment."
"Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!"
"I liked things better when I didn't understand them."
"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
"HOBBES:If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams."
"Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."