“I never asked to be born in the first place.”

“Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.”

“But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.”

“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”

“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.”

“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.”

“This woman was so ugly and stupid, she probably never should have been born. And yet Wait was the second person to have married her.”