Quotes from Bill Watterson

Quando olha para o céu e vê o infinito através das estrelas, você percebe que há coisas mais importantes do que as pessoas fazem todo dia.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.