“I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.”
“I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.”
“...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.”
“I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.”
“Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, ‘I am the carpenter.’ But that wouldn’t have been the same, would it? ‘I am the carpenter….”
“I thought I had made a mistake, but I was mistaken.”