Explore Quotes by Bill Watterson

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.

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?

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

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.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.