A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.