Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
BILL WATTERSONLike delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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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 not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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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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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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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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