Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?” “Are you asking me for it?” “If I were, would you give it to me?
I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea. " "For you I'd get dysentery. " "Now that's friendship.