“Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well”

“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”

“So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.”

“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

“She looked fresh and young and very beautiful. I thought I had never seen any one so beautiful. ‘Hello,’ I said. When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me”

“So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.”