“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.”

“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”

“We want playmates we can own”

“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”

“design is so important because chaos is so hard”

“It's so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.You didn't help me at all when I was so poor and needy.”

“I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.”