He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

It's a mining town in lotus land.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.