Vital Signs

• Mogger Since

  October 11, 2007

• Age

  43

• Johnny Ramone, asked by an interviewer "Is the brevity of your songs meant to be satirical?"

  "The what of the song was what?"

• A clearly-stung Alex Chilton, asked by an interviewer why he'd stopped trying to write pop hits

  "All my songs sound like hits to me."

• Walter Kerr's entire review of John Van Druten's play "I Am a Camera"

  "Me no Leica."

• Bill "Spaceman" Lee, asked by an interviewer what pressure he felt while pitching

  "14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level."

• Psalm 35:6, King James Edition

  Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

• Johnny Rotten, on being told that Elvis Presley had just died

  "Good riddance to bad rubbish."

• Edward Moxon, asked by his publisher about the difficulties of writing

  "It is the curse of authors that their wives cannot be made to understand that when they're gazing out the window for hours -- they're working."

• Thom Yorke, in an interview shortly after the release of "OK Computer"

  "We just get together and try to imitate Pink Floyd. Honestly. And it comes out like that."

• Calvin Coolidge, told by Dorothy Parker that she had made a $50 bet that she could elicit three words from him

  "You lose."

• Dorothy Parker, on the news of Calvin Coolidge's death

  "How can they tell?"

• Danny Fields, approached by an excited fan at a party and asked what Iggy Pop was like in person

  "He's an asshole. All musicians are assholes."

• Convicted murderer William Palmer, being led to the scaffold

  "Are you sure this damn thing's safe?"

• Jim Murray on Stu Miller's pitching

  "Three pitch speeds: slow, slower, and reverse."