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

"[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…"

"The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there …"

"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."