“Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties.”
“Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.”
“But the pinkness and whiteness of underskirts and camisoles, the frilliness of foundation garments, the rustle about the bustle and the fuss about the bust.”
“Easy in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot!”
“Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.”
“If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.”