"Limit poker is a science, and these kids are scientists. But no-limit is an art. In limit you're shooting at a target. In no-limit the target comes alive and shoots back at you."

"I cannot understand nor share these joys, though they are within my reach, for which thousands of others strive. On the other hand, what happens to me in my rare hours of joy, what for me is bliss and…"

"It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incom…"

"I was very young, and those events affected me deeply. I feel the time given to me doesn't belong only to me. In everything – my writing, my travelling, my happiness – I live partly on behalf of those…"

"simple people brought their bodies and shared their scanty bread with the artists. Kirchner learned the course of life again in their houses."