“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”

“I never worried about the genius: genius takes care of the genius in a man. My concern was always for the nobody, the man who is lost in the shuffle, the man who is so common, so ordinary, that his presence is not even noticed. One genius does not inspire another.”

“What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy tracts. There might be eighty feet of road carpeted by white butterflies, so many of them that if you drove too fast your tires lost their grip, and some people lost their lives, skidding on butterflies.”

“If you think life is in control, you're not going fast enough.”

“My world got very big,very fast, and based on a lot of sad examplesfrom the past,a lot of people expect me to get lost in it”

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”