"I wanted to create a labyrinth which would somehow help to prevent a compositional idea from establishing itself all …"

"The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth."

"There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one."

"I remember the whirr and whine of her black Singer, the gold traceries on the cast iron rod by the wheel that lifted …"

"Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?"

"I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the futu…"

"A labyrinth of symbols… An invisible labyrinth of time."

"Ts'ui Pe must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a lab…"

"In the work of Ts'ui Pên, all possible outcomes occur; each one is the point of departure for other forkings. Sometim…"

"Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue: Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it …"