“The baboon is driving,” I noted. “Should I be worried?”

“The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you
I know it makes no difference
To what you’re going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you…
-- Distant Early Warning (1984)”

“Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.”

“Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.”

“Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!”

“Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won’t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that’s what senility is.”

“Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.”

“Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.”

“Civilization, I sometimes think, is little more than a thin veneer of culture covering a host of red-assed baboons!”

“oh i should worry and fret
death and i will coquette
there s a dance in the old dame yet
toujours gai toujours gai”