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.
BILL WATTERSONA little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
-
-
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?
BILL WATTERSON -
I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
BILL WATTERSON -
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSON -
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON -
Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
BILL WATTERSON -
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.
BILL WATTERSON -
Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
BILL WATTERSON -
Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
BILL WATTERSON -
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
BILL WATTERSON -
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.
BILL WATTERSON -
Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
BILL WATTERSON -
I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
BILL WATTERSON -
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
BILL WATTERSON -
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
BILL WATTERSON -
Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
BILL WATTERSON