Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
BILL WATTERSONThe problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Isn’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?
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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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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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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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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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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