“I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.”

Playboy interview (1996)
Context: I was madly in love with Hollywood. … I was so blindly and madly in love with the film and radio business in Hollywood that I didn't realize what a pest I was. George no doubt thought he could get me off his back by using my words for one of the eight-line vignettes he had Gracie close their broadcasts with. I wanted to live that special life forever. When that summer was over, I stopped my inner time clock at the age of 14. Another reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination. … And strangely enough, my parents never protested. They just figured I was crazy and that God would protect me. Of course back then you could go around town at night and never risk getting mugged or beaten up.

Source: I, Lucifer

Source: On the Road

Source: Lothaire

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

Peeta Mellark, p. 253
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

You've Really Got a Hold on Me (1962)
Song lyrics, With The Miracles

Source: Second Helpings

Opening Lines
Catch-22 (1961)