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

—Bill Watterson

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About Bill Watterson

Portrait of Bill Watterson

William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The strip was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson concluded Calvin and Hobbes with a short statement to newspaper readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in...

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Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

—Bill Watterson

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

—Bill Watterson

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Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

—Bill Watterson

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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

—Bill Watterson

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That’s the problem with nature. Something’s always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let’s go watch TV.

—Bill Watterson

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

—Thomas Carlyle

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Wherever you go, the sky is the same color.

—Persian saying

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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

—Henry Morton Stanley

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Slipping on my shoes, boiling water, toasting bread, buttering the sky: that should be enough contact with God in one day to make anyone crazy.

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