“However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.”
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
“No matter how hard I try, I can’t grow facial hair on my chest.”
“This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.”
“See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.”
“When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.”