It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
BILL WATTERSONArt has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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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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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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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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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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