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'A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it' (p. 414).

'By day he walks around like an illustration from the Book of Job' (p. 413).

'The word 'however' is like an imp coiled under your chair. It induced ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin' (p. 482).

"When Steven comes into a room, the furnishings shrink for him. Chair scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches" (p. 37).

"There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word" (p. 106).