Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
BILL WATTERSONYears from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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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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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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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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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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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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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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