There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

Literature has become my life.

just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.