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 WATTERSONCalvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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