“The universe must be having a slow night.”

“During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues—for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.”

“all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.”

“The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.”

“We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!”

“And LO and BEHOLD, I was on BOTH the six AND eleven o’clock newscasts!AND all the commercials, as well! (‘Day of the drag queen at one area high school, controversy at six!’)And it must have been a slow night because I was the SECOND PIECE of the night! The granny suicide bomber got the lead. BITCH! But I managed to beat out the president’s pulled groin and day six of the Jessica Simpson chapped-lip crisis!”