“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”

“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat.”

“He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid.Till in the end he could not change the tragic habitsThis formula for drawing comic rabbits made.”

“A man´s desire is a powerful thing. It can reduce a strong man to nothing. When he sees a woman who fascinates him, he will give up everything for her.”

“When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power. And if a man can act without the appearance of action, and bring about great change without the appearance of desiring it, then he has power.”