Bill Watterson Quotes

You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

It’s not denial. I’m just very selective about the reality I accept.

Why waste time trying to fit in when you were born to stand out?

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

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

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.

If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.

My life has a superb cast, but I can’t figure out the plot.

From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.

Bill Watterson quotes are profound and thought-provoking.

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

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

An artist’s job is to captivate you for however long we’ve asked for your attention. If we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Bill Watterson Quotes part 2

It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s still light out.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.

I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

The best presents don’t come in boxes.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.

We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.

The best plan now is simply to live in the moment and not make a lot of long-term plans.

Cartooning is a form of communication that presents itself as entertainment, but sometimes it’s just trying to give you a little slap in the face.

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

If something is too hard to do, then it’s not worth doing.

Some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you.

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

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Often it’s our failures that give us a more accurate view of our true selves.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time, it’s the small things that count.

The world isn’t fair, Calvin.

I have to be a little careful these days, since there’s a gang of tiny critics who follow me everywhere, ready to blame everything that goes wrong on my feet.

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routines, and valleys of frustration and failure.

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

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

Why waste time discovering the truth when you can create it?

If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when… the individual is morally weak and his willpower fails him, the government and laws must come to the rescue.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.