If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to… — 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… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing -… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes what holds you together and what tears you apart are the same things. My lungs are made of armor so that… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — 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
