A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.