Mothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSONIt’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.”
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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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’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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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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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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