“No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.”

Taxi
Song lyrics, Heads & Tales (1972)
Context: There was not much more for us to talk about,
Whatever we had once was gone.
So I turned my cab into the driveway,
Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawns.
And she said we must get together,
But I knew it'd never be arranged.
And she handed me twenty dollars,
For a two fifty fare, she said
"Harry, keep the change."
Well another man might have been angry,
And another man might have been hurt,
But another man never would have let her go...
I stashed the bill in my shirt.

Source: Clockwork Angel

Tiny Vessels
Transatlanticism (2003)

Obituary of Fang Lizhi http://www.economist.com/node/21552551, The Economist, 14th April 2012, p. 98

Lost Boys (1992)

Source: City of Glass

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 11, “The Binding of Iron” (pp. 85-86)