And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.