Bill Watterson Quotes

• That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• But for my own example, I’d never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Believe

• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Life, Wisdom

• But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in God

• Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Happiness

• Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Experience

• The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Job

• If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

• When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Life

• The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Happiness

• We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Time, Busy, Watch

• Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Best Friend, Friendship

  Tags in Never, Thing, Quite

• I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate

• Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there’s nothing real about it; it’s an adult using a kid’s body as a mouthpiece.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real

• Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning, Time, Ignorance

• When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Calvin, Hobbes, Taste, Bird

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Funny, Inspirational

  Tags in Weekend

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Funny, Humor

  Tags in Research, Comedian, Jerks, School

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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