“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world.”

“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”

“I am egg and always will be, and we are eggs and always will be. Fried eggs. Or rotten eggs. Boiled eggs. Or scrambled eggs. Poached eggs. Or round eggs. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

“Attend me. How do you prove that there are eggs in a bird’s nest? Don’t strain your gray matter: go climb the tree and find out. There is no other way.”

“The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell.”

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”

“You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places."
"Enormous? Did you just call me fat?"
"It was an analogy."
"I am not fat.”

“Even at the risk of losing all the golden eggs of the future, I had to find out what made the goose lay those eggs”

“[holds up an egg] This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.”

“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.”