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 WATTERSONI think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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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.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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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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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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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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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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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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