We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.