“All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.”
“If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?”
“Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined. ”
“Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind”
“Later on in life, you might wish that the good things which all befall in your one special year had spread themselves out a little more.”
“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”