When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSONDoes 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?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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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.
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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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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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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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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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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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