The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
BILL WATTERSONI 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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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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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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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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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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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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