He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

A writer wastes nothing.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.