Bill Watterson Quotes

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

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

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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.

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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

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

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I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

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You call this news?! This isn't informative! This is a sound bite! This is entertainment! This is sensationalism! Fortunately, that's all I have the patience for.

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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.

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I don't know which is worse, that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low.

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Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them.

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It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

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Mom and Dad drive me crazy. They don't understand me and I don't understand them. It's hopeless! I'm related to people I don't relate to.

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They say winning isn't everything, and I've decided to take their word for it.

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For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

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By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say.

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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy...Let's go exploring!

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The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens. I can't explain why the strip caught on the way it did, and I don't think I could ever duplicate it. A lot of things have to go right all at once.

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Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist — how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

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I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

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Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.

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I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

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In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

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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 and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them.

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