“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.”

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel {February 2000)

Book IV, Ch. 4
My Antonia (1918)

Clary and Jace, pg. 331
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Anita's musings on Richard, the reluctant werewolf; unidentified edition/page
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)

When it was rumored that he was thinking of contesting for Presidential election for a second term. In: K.R. Sundar Rajan "Presidential Years:Zail Singh's posthumous defence of his controversial tenure."

Part I, p. 2.
The Autobiography (1818)
Context: Indeed I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory Words, Without Vanity I may say, etc. but some vain thing immediately follow'd. Most People dislike Vanity in others whatever Share they have of it themselves, but I give it fair Quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of Good to the Possessor and to others that are within his Sphere of Action: And therefore in many Cases it would not be quite absurd if a Man were to thank God for his Vanity among the other Comforts of Life.

The Daily Telegraph interview, 20 April 1998

The Unnamable (1954)
Context: What they were most determined for me to swallow was my fellow creatures. In this they were without mercy. I remember little or nothing of these lectures. I cannot have understood a great deal. But I seem to have retained certain descriptions, in spite of myself. They gave me courses on love, on intelligence, most precious, most precious. They also taught me to count, and even to reason. Some of this rubbish has come in handy on occasions, I don’t deny it, on occasions which would never have arisen if they had left me in peace. I use it still, to scratch my arse with.