The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
BILL WATTERSONI 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!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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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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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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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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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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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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