Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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.
BILL WATTERSONEvery time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
BILL WATTERSONGetting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSONI keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
BILL WATTERSONWhat a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
BILL WATTERSONLife’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
BILL WATTERSONI tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
BILL WATTERSONWe all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
BILL WATTERSONI thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
BILL WATTERSONI’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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.
BILL WATTERSONButtons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
BILL WATTERSONI’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.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
BILL WATTERSONI’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
BILL WATTERSON