http://home3.inet.tele.dk/stadil/spe_kc.htm
Text of a valedictory address given by Bill Watterson, the famously reclusive genius behind Calvin and Hobbes. He sounds, as you’d expect of a cartoonist, like he takes great joy in the small moments of life.
Despite the futility of the whole episode, my fondest memories of college are times like these, where things were done out of some inexplicable inner imperative, rather than because the work was demanded. Clearly, I never spent as much time or work on any authorized art project, or any poli sci paper, as I spent on this one act of vandalism.
It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves. And with all due respect to John Stuart Mill, maybe utilitarianism is overrated. If I’ve learned one thing from being a cartoonist, it’s how important playing is to creativity and happiness.”