Here's looking at you kid

Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."

I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Here's looking at you kid.

Feel envy toward those who think they were happy

Italo Calvino 的寫作技法變化多端，在 If on a winter's night a traveler，尤其明顯。Calvino 炫技般地模擬不同作者的風格，書寫短篇小說，篇篇精彩，教人讚歎無已。在另一本書 Invisible Cities 裡，則用了奇妙的形式，把小說寫得像散文，又像詩，意境幽遠。

Leaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower. All these beauties will already be familiar to the visitor, who has seen them also in other cities. But the special quality of this city for the man who arrives there on a September evening, when the days are growing shorter and the multicolored lamps are lighted all at once at the doors of the food stalls and from a terrace a woman's voice cries ooh!, is that he feels envy toward those who now believe they have once before lived an evening identical to this and who think they were happy, that time.

選自 Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.

God, I wish you could've been there

《麥田補手》（The Catcher in the Rye）的倒數第二章的結尾。當我讀到這裡，真的也與書中的主角感同身受，驀然間聖靈充滿，彷彿獲得了救贖。

She ran and bought her ticket and got back on the goddam carrousel just in time. Then she walked all the way around it till she got her own horse back. Then she got on it. She waved to me and I waved back.

Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they wouldn't get soaked to the skin or anything, but I stuck around on the bench for quite a while. I got pretty soaking wet, especially my neck and my pants. My hunting hat really gave me quite a lot of protection, in a way, but I got soaked anyway. I didn't care, though. I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going aroud and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there.