625 Quotes by Bill Watterson

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

If someone wants to be a cartoonist, let's see him develop his own strip instead of taking over the duties of someone else's. We've got too many comic strip corpses being propped up and passed for living by new cartoonists who ought to be doing something of their own. If a cartoonist isn't good enough to make it on his own work, he has no business being in the newspaper.

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

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

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.

Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

It's always better to leave the party early.