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.
BILL WATTERSONFew things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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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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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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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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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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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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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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