By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an idea how I ought… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack.… — 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
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
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I… — 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
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
“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice… — 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
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I think life should be more like TV. I think all of life's problems ought to be solved in 30 minutes with… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse. — 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: 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 Image
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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 Image
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
