She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.