why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

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.