"Happy Girl" is a song in which the female narrator asserts her happiness with life.

The narrator then asserts that Mr. Gantt wants massive cuts in military spending, but "Senator Helms says, 'No, we can't take that risk.' "

In part of the book, the narrator asserts that fiction is finding a way to do what artificial intelligence has been trying to do all along - model awareness.

The narrator asserts that, while he is older, he will not give up a honky tonking lifestyle.

In the story, the narrator asserts: "In biography, truth is every thing, and in autobiography it is especially so."

'If' can hold you back," the narrator asserts, then pivots in a positive direction, adding: "Or 'if' can propel you forward.

Dimly, she remembered a wildlife program in which the narrator had asserted that creatures seized violently by predators went almost instantly into a state of shock and felt no pain.

The film's narrator asserts that: "(t)he Jew is instinctively interested in everything abnormal and depraved."

The song's bridge then finds the narrator asserting his own faith as well while attending Old Man Wrigley's funeral.