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 WATTERSONAnd it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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The 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.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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