[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
BILL WATTERSONNow 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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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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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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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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