“Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.”

“...when you start to feel like you are better than someone else, you should probably stick your head in a toilet because at that moment your thoughts are crap.”

“It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.”

“If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun”

“Then Lucia said, "So what do we do now?""Nothing," Otto said. "Things will go on as just they always have.”

“Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.”

“All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”