Bill Watterson

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.

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. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

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.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.