“The conscience of my elusive race gives not a fig for me, baby. But I endure, if you know what I mean.”

“be careful. you are what you eat.”

“Been down so long it looks like up to me.”

“In the room, the cats eat mad spaghettiTalking of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.--from "The Dream Song of J. Alfred Kerowack.”

“god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word.”

“we mistake induction for generation.”

“You see? I don’t know what ‘mature’ means, either, and you could talk all night and I still wouldn’t know. It’s all just words to me, Frank. I watch you talking and I think: Isn’t that amazing? He really does think that way; these words really do mean something to him. Sometimes it seems I’ve been watching people talk and thinking that all my life. And maybe it means there’s something awful the matter with me, but it’s true.”