From 1971 onwards the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer with barbecues blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

In fact I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home rode horses at their ranch and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

So when I was 13 I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas for next summer for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

For one swallow does not make a summer nor does one day and so too one day or a short time does not make a man blessed and happy.

I hope to devote all of my spare time which ordinarily would go to research my summers and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

Oh the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne.

I know it's hard to blame the time but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic and I don't think that was what people were expecting especially in the summer.