Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

I am who I am and that's who I am

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.