Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
BILL WATTERSONMothers are the necessity of invention.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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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 like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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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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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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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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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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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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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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