Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
BILL WATTERSONIt seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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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.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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