“I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.”

“But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.”

“I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.”

“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”

“I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti”

“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.”

“I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.”