Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
BILL WATTERSONAt school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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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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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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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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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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