"Why don't you put a stop to it? 'I try, he said—That's all he could do, he looked tired. He's a bachelor so long, and he likes lentil soup."

"I'm a student, but I'm not a pupil."

"The universe turns inside out to devour me!"

"I am a question, and I am an answer, and I am a problem, and I am a solution, and I am a cause, and I am an effect."

"Though while it comes it is a lion that eats the soul—and the lamb, the soul, in us, alas, offering itself in sacrifice to change's fierce hunger—hair and teeth—and the roar of bonepain, skull bare, b…"