Quotes By Bill Watterson

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.

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

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

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

Reality continues to ruin my life.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

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

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

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.

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

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

It's always better to leave the party early.

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.

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

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

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.

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