“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot."

[(, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]”

“Just as fine clothes and handsome shoes would not be suitable to me.”

“Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.”

“The wrecked Allcock, who 15 minutes earlier had finished sodomizing Bock in the library, raised his eyebrows as if wonderfully surprised.”

“Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner.”

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”

“.. its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them”

“The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.”

“Minister Dilma Rousseff has a strong personality, a male side in the way in which she stamps her management.”

“Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.”