I'd work on my game online and at casinos, build my bankroll, find good games, and try to put myself in a position to keep winning and earn a steady income.

You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine.

You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

I wouldn't count it out, but right now I feel like my career is still just starting. The best years are yet to come.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

I won't ask you if you ever received flowers from a man before. But it was my first, gifting flowers to a woman.

Be careful with what you say. A girl remembers everything.