I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.