Bill Watterson

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

“When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.”

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

“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.”

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

“I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.”

“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!”

“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.”

“Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.”

“We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”

“From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?”

“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?”

“I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.”

“We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.”