Calvin: If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
Hobbes: How so?
Calvin: Well, when you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
A snowy, peaceful day in Central Park.
Me, the clouds, and other pedestrians who just want solitude.
All I can hear is the quack of the ducks and the soft whispers between a couple walking behind me.
This is bliss.
A big smile went between us. Something that we knew about each other, that we’d be friends now, there wasn’t much that could take it from us, we were on the road. I could lower her down into my life and she could probably survive it. And she could lower me into hers and I could rummage around.
Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin)
