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.”
BILL WATTERSON[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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