"A wobble in the cemetery of the world."

"It's like living at a poor address - it marks you off, and every now and then, when people ask you, it's as if you always have to give them too much information about yourself."

"The thing is, common sense and truth don't match - not all the time."

"You go on about nature as if it was just simple. But it's natural for people to be unnatural in some ways. We're nature red in tooth and claw, and nature read in truth and law, both at the same time."

"Matter is not unchanging substance but simply a way of grouping events."

"A right-handed helical twist like honeysuckle."

"Angela had always suspected an oddity in her geography, and knew, because she had access to his ocean, that in a funny way she was bigger inside than out."

"The Ionions rule...