"Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia."

"I turn over a new leaf every day," I said. "But the blots show through."

"[There's] too many people making too much muck and too much noise with too little space to do it in."

"Now, […] the world is beginning to look like what it is—overcrowded, dirty, noisy, smelly, and rapidly running out of…"

"Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?"

"Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-lookin…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"

"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""

"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."