So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.