History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.