Bill Watterson Quotes

"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 in Intelligence quotes.

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
-Bill Watterson

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

"I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us."
-Bill Watterson

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

"People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children."
-Bill Watterson in Children quotes.

"I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport."
-Bill Watterson

"As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators."
-Bill Watterson

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

"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

"Virtue isn't 'better' than vice. It's just different."
-Bill Watterson

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

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
-Bill Watterson

"Careful. We don't want to learn from this."
-Bill Watterson

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

"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
-Bill Watterson

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

"The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing."
-Bill Watterson

"Unfortunately, we're all 'someone else' to someone else."
-Bill Watterson

"If we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life."
-Bill Watterson

"Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination."
-Bill Watterson

"I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it."
-Bill Watterson

"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
-Bill Watterson