“My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, I said "No, but I want a regular banana later, so … yeah."”

“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”

“I wrote "Eat It" because I wanted to buy a banana boat for Christmas. It worked.”

“I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?”

“You know the man who told me about it on the bus,
as it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania,
he shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head,
and he said (and this is exactly what he said)
"Boy that sure must've been something.
Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas.
Of bananas. Just bananas. Thirty thousand pounds.
of Bananas—not no driver now. Just bananas!"”

“If this is justice, I am a banana.”

“If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.”

“I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug."
Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!"
"It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!”

“I could carve a better man out of a banana. ”

“Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas.

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.”