I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms! — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?!… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an idea how I ought to be!… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
