625 Quotes by Bill Watterson

I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.

Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.

Enemy fighters at two o'clock! Roger. What should I do until then?

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!