Bill Watterson

Cartoonist

48 Quotes

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.

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

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

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 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!

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

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

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

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

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.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

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

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