It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
BILL WATTERSONYou know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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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 will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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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.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. T
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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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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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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