“I once started out to walk around the world but ended up with you.Thank God.”

“I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.”

“Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle.”

“We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it's finally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day. I get hold of it so it'll never run off. I'll hold onto the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”

“You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.”

“I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.”