Source: The Cider House Rules
“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
“Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.”
Famous sign-off line to all his radio and TV shows, the meaning of which he never publicly revealed, leading to much speculation and many theories. Only after his death did it become public knowledge that it was reference to his first wife, Jeanne Olson, who died in 1943, and that Calabash was a private name between them for Calabasas, California, where she spent much of the final years of her life.
“Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”
Source: Letter to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (8 October 1638), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume VII—Letters (1860), p. 489
“HOBBES:
If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.”
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
After exchanging pleasantries with the Queen, quoted in "When 'Maharaja of Travancore' met Queen Elizabeth II (8 July 2012)".
“If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.”
