“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
“The difference between a millstone and a keystone is a gemstone.”
“The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.”
“Well let the gentlemen of the bourgeoisie remember Berlin any way they please. As Comrade Khruschev promised us, we will bury them.”
“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”
“She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.”