Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
BILL WATTERSONI hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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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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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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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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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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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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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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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