Bill Watterson Quotes

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

The smartest geek I know.

He was the smartest man I ever met.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius

I'm a bordering genius.

The cliches that circulate in the German media about Joachim Sauer are a total fallacy. The fact is that he's his own man. He's witty, he's profound, he can be incredibly funny, and he's an extremely bright guy.

I'd always been the genius of the family.

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!

Don't you love it when people in school are like, “I'm a bad test taker”? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here, but once paint hits canvas, I develop Parkinson's.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

Genius is born-not paid

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?