Bill Watterson's Quotes

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

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

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.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

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

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

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

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

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

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

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

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

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.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

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

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

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

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

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

I have never believed in the impossible.

I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.