“The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.”

“And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.”

“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”

“No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.”

“I’d put a banana on my tray, too. That, at least, didn’tremind me of anything trying to kill me. Could you kill someone with a banana? It didn’t seempossible. Maybe a possessed banana. I’d seen possessed pets before, but not possessed fruit. ButI’ll bet it’s out there somewhere.”

“What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”