I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
BILL WATTERSONMs. 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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