Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
Something to Fall Back on
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" (1959)
“I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.”
Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker
“A man has to grow up in a language to be able to understand it scrambled.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Sixth Column
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 9 (p. 108)
“[holds up an egg] This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.”
Sarah Silverman (1970) American comedian and actress
The Sarah Silverman Program
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
NOW interview (2004)
“The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.”
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 8 (1877)