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.”
BILL WATTERSONI let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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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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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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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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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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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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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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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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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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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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