“For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says "You are here.”

“I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.”

“Dot is lonely. Are you surprised? It's hard to find friends when you're only Dot-sized.”

“The Ladybug wears no disguises.She is just what she advertises.A speckled spectacle of spring,A fashion statement on the wing....A miniature orange kite.A tiny dot-to-dot delight.”

“Memory was a story you told yourself about yourself, extrapolated from a tiny dot-matrix of facts.”

“O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.”