From the Bookshelf of Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die…

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.

Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

... How do you start at the beginning, if things happen before they happen?

She looked at herself and lightly thought: so young and already rusted.

(Some people have got it. And some people don’t. It’s very simple: the girl didn’t. Didn’t have what? Exactly that: she didn’t. If you see what I’m saying, fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But why am I bothering with this girl when what I want more than anything is purely ripe and golden wheat in summer?)