“Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again?”

“The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.”

“After an orange cloud — formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents — reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat.”

“And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34)”

“There always comes in September a parched brightness to the air that hits Rabbit two ways, smelling of apples and blackboard dust and marking the return to school and work in earnest, but then again reminding him he's suffered another promotion, taken another step up the stairs that has darkness at the head.”

“When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”