Bill Watterson Life Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

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

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.

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

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

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

Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.

I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!

I was not prepared for the resulting attention. Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and the inhibiting quality of feeling watched, I valued my anonymous, boring life. In fact, I didn't see how I could write honestly without it. A year later, I moved out west, got an unlisted phone number, stopped giving interviews, and tried to fly as low under the radar as possible. Of course, some reporters took this as a personal challenge to intrude, but in general, my quiet life let me concentrate on my work.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

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

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers.

If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.