No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.