“...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness.”
“I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.”
“... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.”
“An exercise for the reader: Who would win in a scavenger hunt, 20th century archaeologist Indiana Jones or 51st century archaeologist River Song?”
“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.”
“I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.”