Bill Watterson Quotes

Calvin: Know what I pray for?
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

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 the meaning of all this?
HOBBES:
I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
CALVIN:
Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'

'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

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

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.