"The value of inscribing private meanings in art is much debated, but as Gertrude Stein and Lewis Carroll show us ("'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...") art needn't always be fully comprehensible to be suggestive, enjoyable and even useful"

(Downie, Glen. "How Poems work from Trouble Sleeping by Phil Hall". The Globe and Mail, 17 November 2001:D26)