more you drink more you want

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.