Quotes by Bill Watterson

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own wo...”

“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

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

“When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.”

“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 ...”

“Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!”

“If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.”

“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:As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.”

“To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.”

“In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will mak...”

“HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.”

“Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”

“HOBBES:If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.”

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”

“I liked things better when I didn't understand them.”

“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”

“As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.”

“In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”