she is a terribly funny and observant inventor of sentences

Radical skepticism

Who makes the world?

A world of flows is erasing the world of places

to excavate the intimate traces of Millet's trip on the "whisper tapes" she left behind

they will not make the mind squeeze, grind.

White-knuckling a positive attitude.

A country that is OK prosecuting women who miscarry isn’t really a country I recognize, much less one I can believe in

metaphor literally means to carry something beyond, carrying being the basic thing language does, language being great nets we weave to hold meaning

He named book after book in an expanding web as if he were trying to sum up the world