“Their leader wore a Nazi helmet and had renamed himself Heimlich in honor of the man who ran the SS, not knowing he'd confused the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choke victims and Heinrich Himmler.”

“And still others heard: dreeeple zoonnnnnnggggggg ummmmmtwrrrdssssCalling from the beyondWhatever it was, it touched E.T.'s healing finger, and caused it to glow.He healed himself.”

“Writing is magic for those willing to follow their imagination to a region where anything is possible.”

“Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.”

“An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.”

“What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.”

“Heidrich and Himmler tried to eliminate obesity among the SS, Professor Saeki said. Himmler's dream was that one day, all Germans would be vegetarians”