I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
BILL WATTERSONA 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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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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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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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’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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Calvin: 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.
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