"And there were a couple of doctors at the table, and doctors always had a lot of money and played loose, staying in with just about every hand." -- Tim Powers
"It was a hand of five-card stud, and I would like to be able to say that I won it because the gods favored me. But the gods had nothing to do with it since I’d dealt it to myself some twelve hours earlier on my own coffee table at home." -- Milton T. Burton