“Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.”

"Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself"
Collected Poems (1954)

The Harmon Chronicles (ECW Press, 2002), Section I, America's Most Beautiful Baby Contest, p. 17.

As quoted in 20,000 Quips & Quotes (1995) by Evan Esa

Sexual Healing, co-written with Odell Brown and David Ritz.
Song lyrics, Midnight Love (1982)

Remembrance Rock (1948), Ch. 2, p. 7
Context: A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of saving the library or the babies, I would save what is alive. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo plants, don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devices and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable. A baby is very modern. Yet it is also the oldest of the ancients. A baby doesn't know he is a hoary and venerable antique — but he is. Before man learned how to make an alphabet, how to make a wheel, how to make a fire, he knew how to make a baby — with the great help of woman, and his God and Maker.

(Ain't That) Good News
Song lyrics, Ain't That Good News (1964)

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Source: The City in History (1961), Ch. 18
Context: Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.