Bill Watterson Quotes

• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doll

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Surprising, Hard

• It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being Cool, Once, Ground, Grow
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  Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Best Friend, Friendship

  Tags in Never, Thing, Quite

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Funny, Inspirational

  Tags in Weekend

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

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Calvin, Hobbes

• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Passively, Unfulfilled, Calvin, Hobbes

• 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!

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Clarity, Impenetrable

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

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Beyond

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

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Off, Battery

• Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Calamity

• Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Spreading, Bad Mood

• If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Life

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

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Unfair, Fairness

• Heck, what’s a little extortion among friends?

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Extortion, Heck

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Connect, Dots

• Mothers are the necessity of invention.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Mom

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Intelligence

• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Winter

Bill Watterson (59)

Birth:	5th July, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist

About

Bill Watterson II is an American artist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. Watterson is known for his views on licensing and comic syndication and his move back into private life after drawing Calvin and Hobbes came to a close.

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