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.
BILL WATTERSONShutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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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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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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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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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 thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Hold 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?
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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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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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