625 Quotes by Bill Watterson

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.

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

I’ve never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my progress; each month I know that I have to produce so many strips, and by the end of the month I’ll make sure that I have.

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

I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I write separately from the inking up. I’m sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.

Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another.

We don’t value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there’s no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We’re not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration. There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.