“Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.”

“What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?”

“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”

“But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.”

“I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.”

“I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonightcomplete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets;I am going to push it across three dark highwaysor coast along under 600,000 faint stars.”

“There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. ”