I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
BILL WATTERSONI’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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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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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.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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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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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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