“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.”

“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”

“You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.”

“When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.”

“It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight...”

“And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.”