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What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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The problem with people is that they're only human.
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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I've never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my progress each month I know that I have to produce so many strips, and by the end of the month I'll make sure that I have.
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It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.
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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.
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So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!
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