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Bill Watterson
American
Cartoonist
About the author
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Present
#Future
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Life
#Ruin
#Reality
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,
American
Cartoonist
#Mistakes
#Present
#Calamity
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Thought
#Car
#Mind
#Running
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Nothing
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Food
#World
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,
American
Cartoonist
#Life
#Universe
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,
American
Cartoonist
#Words
#Wonder
#Talking
#Thoughts
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Experience
#Body
#Talking
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Wonder
#Science
#Trying
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,
American
Cartoonist
#Practice
#Purpose
#Writing
#Ideas
#Clarity
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Life
#Universe
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,
American
Cartoonist
#Want
#Life
#World
#Logic
#Reality
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Want
#Time
#Nothing
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Friend
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Time
#Ignorance
#Learning
#Waste
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,
American
Cartoonist
#Want
#Will
#Needs
We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Research
#Cure
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Taste
#Birds
#Bugs
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Necessity
#Invention
#Mothers
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Winning
#Snow
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Now
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Friends
A real job is a job you hate.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Job
#Hate
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Problems
#Play
#Mind
Genius is never understood in its own time.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Time
#Genius
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,
American
Cartoonist
#Right
#Now
#God
#Will
#Earth
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Life
#Expectations
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#World
I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
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,
American
Cartoonist
#Play
#Dreams
#Night
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Life
#Thought
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Nothing
#Day
#Pretty
#Change
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Dumb
#Information
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Quiet
#Listening
#Nagging
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#People
#Stars
#Night
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Life
#Control
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Life
#Day
#End
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#People
#Idea
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Reality
#Denial
It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist
#Work
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
Bill Watterson,
American
Cartoonist