625 Quotes by Bill Watterson

By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an idea how I ought to be! I don't need advice! Everyone can just stay out of my face!

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

I'd hate to have a kid like me.

Comics are capable of being anything the mind can imagine. I consider it a great privilege to be a cartoonist. I love my work, and I am grateful for the incredible forum I have to express my thoughts. People give me their attention for a few seconds every day, and I take that as an honor and a responsibility. I try to give readers the best strip I'm capable of doing.

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

The kind of girl I was attracted to in school and eventually married.