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.
BILL WATTERSONReality continues to ruin my life.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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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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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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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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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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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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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.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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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.”
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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