"I am a man of peace, and I hate war."

"I laugh at the world, for it does not understand me."

"I know myself, and I have such a sense of religion that I shall never do anything which I would not do before the whole world; but I am alarmed at the very thoughts of being in the society of people, …"

"I never write anything without having thought it over carefully."

"A goodly number of high nobility was present: the Duchess Kickass, the Countess Pisshappy, also the Princess Smellshit with her two daughters, who are married to the two Princes of Mustbelly von Pigta…"