That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
BILL WATTERSONAt that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
-
-
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
BILL WATTERSON -
I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
BILL WATTERSON -
Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
BILL WATTERSON -
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
BILL WATTERSON -
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
BILL WATTERSON -
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
BILL WATTERSON -
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
BILL WATTERSON -
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
BILL WATTERSON -
I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
BILL WATTERSON -
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
BILL WATTERSON -
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
BILL WATTERSON -
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
BILL WATTERSON -
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
BILL WATTERSON -
I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
BILL WATTERSON -
I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
BILL WATTERSON