“I'm not a vegetable,
I will not control myself.”

“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

“Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian."

You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him.

Those are vegetables.”

“I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.”

“I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. […] Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!”

“I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.”

“Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.”

“You're a vegetable, you're a vegetable,
Still they hate you, you're a vegetable,
You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable,
They eat off you, you're a vegetable.”

“My deepest human longing is/ Not to control the world and people/ But to control and realise myself!”

“I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?”