“My strip is not like the kind that depends on variety or new characters. I’ve got pretty much the same characters and basic idea that I had so many years ago. I want to keep the strip simple. I like it, for example, when Charlie Brown watches the first leaf of fall float down and then walks over and just says, ‘Did you have a good summer?’ That’s the kind of strip that gives me pleasure to do.”

Charles Schulz

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“Heat, like an article of invisible clothing, makes us want to take it off.”

Fernando Pessoa

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“I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.”

Johnny Cash

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“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill…the boys of summer, running.”

Ray Bradbury

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“…and because the light will enlarge your days, your dreams at night will be as strange as the jars of octopus you saw once in a fisherman’s boat under the summer moon…”

Robert Hass

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“There is no word in the language for end-of-summer sadness, but the human spirit has a word for it and picks up the first sound of its approach.”

E. B. White

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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

Henry James

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“It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer’s vacation than they do planning the rest of their lives.”

Patricia Fripp

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