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• I never saw a purple cow I never hope to see one But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one.
  -- Gellett Burgess I've never seen a purple cow I never hope to see one But from the milk we're getting now There certainly must be one -- Odgen Nash Ah, yes, I wrote "The Purple Cow" I'm sorry now I wrote it But I can tell you anyhow I'll kill you if you quote it....
• I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one!
  -- Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), -- The Burgess Nonsense Book (1914) "The Purple Cow...
• In Anthony Burgess' The End of the World News, one of the characters recites the following
  I loved you. And love for you has not yet burned out of my soul....
• One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr.
  Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, "The Biography of a Dead Cow", is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship....
• I can only tell you that I sincerely wish that I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
• I can't believe I wrote that whole thing.
• I wrote a program in Lisp once...it wrote back to me.
• Clerk: Now before we give you health insurance, I have to ask you a few questions.
  Homer: Questions! Questions! My whole scheme down the -- [realizes] I mean ask away....
• Flanders: I give you the Jury of the Damned! Benedict Arnold, Lizzie Borden, Richard Nixon -- Nixo
  But I'm not dead yet! In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook....