My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
BILL WATTERSONYou have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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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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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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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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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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