If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
BILL WATTERSONRaised 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?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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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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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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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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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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If 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.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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