“I am Ragnuk, and I am going to eat you now.”

“You are mine now, I am not going to let anything happen to you.”

“I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.”

“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.”

“Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.”

“Now, nature, as I am only too aware, has her enthusiasts, but on the whole, I am not to be counted among them. To put it bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.”