Bean

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.”
― Muriel Barbery

“... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere. ”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London