As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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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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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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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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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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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’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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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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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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