“A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.”
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull, in the beholder's eye as a spotlight would, in all its individual planes and angles. So peculiarly individual was its shape that at first glance the hat appeared to be on the head of someone standing immediately behind Luster.”
“Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.”
“A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.”
“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.”
“This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.”