“Are we animals because we're caged, or caged because we're animals? I think it's both.”

“Neat or disheveled, even asleep, snoring from a stuffed nose and drooling from the corner of her mouth, a woman is beautiful.”

“You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.”

“I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.”

“We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?”

“We're not animals. We're not animals. We're not animals, we're not rabbits; we're people.”

“That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.”