I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.