"For seven years of his marriage to Marge, Elmer had employed Converse as a principal writer on 'Nightbeat', which his lawyers described as A Weekly Tabloid With a Heavy Emphasis on Sex."
P. 23

"After his exercise in reality, Converse had fallen in with Charmian and the dope people; he became one of the Constantly Stoned."
p. 24

"I'm prepared to take chances at this point and I don't respond to the moral objections."
p. 39

"I am afraid, Converse reasoned, therefore I am."
p. 42

"Let smiles cease," Converse said. "Let laughter flee. This is the place where everybody finds out who they are."
p. 56

"He carried the hallucinatory circus scent of patchouli oil, the smell of dope and cold-eyed freakery."
p. 95

"I think it's usual to cry when you're hurt. But to cry before is uncool."
p. 131

"On the floor he looked up into Smitty's face. It was an undersea...