But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
BILL WATTERSONBut Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
BILL WATTERSONI 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.
BILL WATTERSONIt’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
BILL WATTERSONWe 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.
BILL WATTERSONShutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
BILL WATTERSONAs “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
BILL WATTERSONNothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
BILL WATTERSONI’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
BILL WATTERSONSomeday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
BILL WATTERSONWhen life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
BILL WATTERSONIf 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.
BILL WATTERSONOf course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
BILL WATTERSONWhen birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSONHold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
BILL WATTERSONIsn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
BILL WATTERSONI try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
BILL WATTERSON