“If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!”

“I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.”

“A lot of men have lost money chasing women. But no man has ever lost women chasing money.”

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone and without money on the square of some unknown city with a population of a million, would not perish, would not die of cold and hunger, for he would immediately be fed and immediately be taken care of, and if no one else took care of him, he would immediately take care of himself, and it would cost him no effort, and no humiliation, and he would be no burden to those who took care of him, perhaps, on the contrary, they would consider it a pleasure.”

“They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.“Ay,” the old man said. “Galanos. Come on galanos.”

“He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.”