“Nous esperons que notre grand-père vivra encore longtemps.”

“Nous sommes ce que nous faisons semblant d'être. C'est pourquoi il faut faire attention à ce que nous faisons semblant d'être.”

“In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.”

“This was a pretty girl, except she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano...”

“When the last living thingHas died on account of us,How poetical it would beIf Earth could say,In a voice floating upPerhapsFrom the floorOf the Grand Canyon,"It is done."People did not like it here.”

“They didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon.”

“bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this:WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT,BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP.only he didn't say "doggone.”