“The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.”
“Crying is really bad for your vocal cords”
“My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.”
“Sometimes I believe evolution is an insult to the apes.”
“A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.”
“By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)”