George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.

When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.