Bill Watterson Quotes

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.

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

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

There's more to this world than just people, you know.

You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

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

I'd hate to have a kid like me.

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.

Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.

Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

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.

I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

The score is still Q to 12!

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

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!

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

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.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

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.

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.