[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

The brontosaurus had thirty-ton body and a two-ounce brain. The anatosaurus had two thousand teeth. Triceratops had a helmet of filled bone seven feet long. Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms and teeth like six-inch razors and it was elected President. It ate everything—dead meat, living meat, old bones—

I don't think about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.