The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.