Quotes from Bill Watterson

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

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

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

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

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

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

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.

A real job is a job you hate.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

CALVIN:As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?