The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
BILL WATTERSONI’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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[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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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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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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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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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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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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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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