“Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?”
“You can't have expectations. You just have to do it. If you go into it expecting something, then you'll always be disappointed. Just dive.”
“With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.”
“I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”
“life's greatest disappointments come from the highest expectations.”
“If you have expectations, expect to be disappointed.”