I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
BILL WATTERSONHappiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never 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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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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Calvin: 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.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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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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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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