Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

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