I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
BILL WATTERSONIt’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.”
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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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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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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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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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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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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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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