“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”
“Like some huge, mutant chicken–I sat there hatching a gas-egg the size of a planet.”
“Take this one to the bank: birds are hatched from eggs and are always egg-shaped. Maybe there's no escaping the shape that molds you, no getting around how you got started even if you do break out.”
“Well, then, Otter, of course I don’t like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don’t see chickens standing outside of maternity wards waiting to get our babies to make their Bundt cake, do you?”
“With Cosmic Ordering you can count your chickens before they have hatched.”
“Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.”