Top 45 Quotes by Bill Watterson

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

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

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

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

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 I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

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.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!