“Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.”

“Most of the Vogue girls are so thin, tremendously thin, because Miss Anna don't like fat people.”

“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”

“Thirty — the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

“I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show”

“Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.”

“I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft…”

“We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.”

“If you want to look young and thin hang around old fat people.”

“Getting along with women,
Knocking around with men,
Having more credit than money,
Thus one goes through the world.”