Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
BILL WATTERSONTomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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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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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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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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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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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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[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,
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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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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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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