Quotes from Bill Watterson

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a graphic novel, but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

I'm a man of few words. If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being cool. Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be cool. Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.

It's a funny world, Hobbes. True. But it's not a hilarious world.…unless you like sick humour. The world is probably funnier to people who don't live here.

I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

You know, maybe we don't need enemies. Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces... Ughh, look at the spider Suck out that bug's juices!

On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.

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

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this product as a reflection of that independence. So basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through conformity in brand-name selection?

Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin: Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Watcha doin'?" "Looking for frogs." "How come?" "I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

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

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said Eat your peas. Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney's Mom never found out where he'd gone, Cause Barney didn't tell her. There his dad spent his life eating mice and gruel With every bite for fifty years he was sorry he'd been cruel

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

Idiocy is the essence of the male mind.