'..for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.'

'...your underwear is clean in case you should be hit by a taxicab and have to be undressed by strangers.'

'Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.'

'I'm wicked, as you say, and I'm rude and I'm boorish and I discovered, after marrying Mr Scaddon, that I could be all these things and worse and that there wo…

The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowe…

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.