"One blast from the eraserhead [sic] in Bradshaw's rifle and the Minotaur would be reduced to the building blocks of his fictional existence: text and a bluish mist - all that is left when the bonds that link text to meaning are severed" (Chapter 1, p. 3-4).

"'Good evening and welcome to Evade the Question Time, the nation's premier topical talk show. Tonight, as every night, a panel of distinguished public figures generally evade answering the audience's questions and instead toe the party line'" (Chapter 3, p. 47).

"'If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—ultimately, without a major resolution'" (Chapter 5, p. 76).

"Sometimes help arrives from the last place you expect it" (Chapter 6, p. 89).

"'Quite simply, we deny everything,' said Mr. Toedee, the Goliath head PR operative, 'including any story that you might have heard now...