“Have I just been born?” asked the machine.”

“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.”

“I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.”

“I may not have been born captain of this boat, but I was born to rock it.”

“why did it have to happen?'It was one more hollow echo to the question humanity had been asking for millenniums, the question men were seemingly born to ask.”

“Were you born in a barn? I must have been, mom asked me so often... You would've thought she would know if anyone did!”