Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

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

Kiss me now, love me now.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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.