God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
- Bill Watterson Quote

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
- Bill Watterson Quote

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
- Bill Watterson Quote

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
- Bill Watterson Quote

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
- Bill Watterson Quote

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
- Bill Watterson Quote

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
- Bill Watterson Quote

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

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
- Bill Watterson Quote

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
- Bill Watterson Quote

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
- Bill Watterson Quote

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.
- Bill Watterson Quote

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
- Bill Watterson Quote

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

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.
- Bill Watterson Quote

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
- Bill Watterson Quote

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!
- Bill Watterson Quote

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.
- Bill Watterson Quote

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
- Bill Watterson Quote

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.
- Bill Watterson Quote

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
- Bill Watterson Quote

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
- Bill Watterson Quote