A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
BILL WATTERSONIf people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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.”
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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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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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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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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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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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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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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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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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