People were excited by violence. What$$$ after all$$$ was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault$$$ a momentary death?

I don't want anyone to look to me$$$ not for protection$$$ not for happiness$$$ not for love$$$ not for anything.

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

if you are going to be pushed$$$ you had better jump.

In Sartres style of argument$$$ German metaphysics met French sophistry in a kind of European Coal and Steel Community producing nothing but rhetorical gas.

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns$$$ and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible$$$ perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.