You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
BILL WATTERSONThe strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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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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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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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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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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