Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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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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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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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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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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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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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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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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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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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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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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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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