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.
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
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 surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.