"No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's…"

"Many days later another caravan was passing and a man saw something on top of the highest dune there. And when they w…"

"For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomen…"

"So she said banteringly: "What's the unit of exchange in this different world of yours?" He did not hesitate. "The te…"

"A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach …"

"Africa was a big place and would offer its own suggestions"

"For God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about Hell."

"We're all monsters," said Daisy with enthusiasm. "It's the Age of Monsters."

"Dr Slade went in to lunch in a state of desperate boredom tempered with resentment; it had shaken him a little to see…"

"Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west."