Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people’s stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.

Employment is my right my destiny.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?