Bill Watterson: Quotes about people

“I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”

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

“I'm related to people I don't relate to.”

“People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something.”

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

“Calvin: It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
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“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?”

“People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”

“I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.”

“The problem with people is that they're only human.”

“Calvin: It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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“It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them.”

“The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens. I can't explain why the strip caught on the way it did, and I don't think I could ever duplicate it. A lot of things have to go right all at once.”