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 WATTERSONIt’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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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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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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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 your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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