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.
BILL WATTERSONIn 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.
BILL WATTERSONChildhood is for spoiling adulthood.
BILL WATTERSONI was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
BILL WATTERSONLeader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
BILL WATTERSONThe whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
BILL WATTERSONIf people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
BILL WATTERSONI’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
BILL WATTERSONWhen birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSONMothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSONCounty library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
BILL WATTERSONI’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
BILL WATTERSONLife is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
BILL WATTERSONHobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
BILL WATTERSONI try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
BILL WATTERSONScientific Progress goes boink?
BILL WATTERSONI tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
BILL WATTERSON