Bill Watterson

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

— Bill Watterson

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

— Bill Watterson

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

— Bill Watterson

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

— Bill Watterson

Good friends are hard to come by.. I need more money.

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

— Bill Watterson

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face…

— Bill Watterson

I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

— Bill Watterson

“I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

“In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when…

— Bill Watterson

I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of…

— Bill Watterson

If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but…

— Bill Watterson

“I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with…

— Bill Watterson

Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin,…

— Bill Watterson

Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do…

— Bill Watterson

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live…

— Bill Watterson

You should stick with what you enjoy, what you find funny -- that's the humor that will be the strongest, and that…

— Bill Watterson

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

— Bill Watterson

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

— Bill Watterson

I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

— Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

— Bill Watterson

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

— Bill Watterson

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

— Bill Watterson

“I've never understood people who remember childhood as an idyllic time.”

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

“Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.”

— Bill Watterson

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

— Bill Watterson

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

— Bill Watterson

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

— Bill Watterson