My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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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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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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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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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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