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.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: 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.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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.
BILL WATTERSONI’d hate to have a kid like me.
BILL WATTERSONNow 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.
BILL WATTERSONWe need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
BILL WATTERSONEveryone 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.
BILL WATTERSONChildhood is for spoiling adulthood.
BILL WATTERSONWhat’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
BILL WATTERSONYou know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
BILL WATTERSONFew things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
BILL WATTERSONYakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
BILL WATTERSONWhen birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSONYou know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
BILL WATTERSONThe 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.
BILL WATTERSON