“Rocket ships
are exciting
but so are roses
on a birthday.”

“What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?”

“And the final event to himself has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”

“I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

“The final dive of the ship, as the bow lay submerged and the stern rose out of the water, was truly horrendous for all who witnessed it.”

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.”

“It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday!
“Happy birthday!” I yelled. “Now shut up!”

“The penis -- if you think about it -- is the most enterprising engineering feat imaginable -- a cantilevered structure, hydraulics, propulsion, pistons, compression, inflation, heat sensitive -- practically every engineering characteristic -- towers, draw-bridges, rocket-ships -- no man-made engineering structure to match it.”

“So how did he look at me?"

"Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.”