“But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.”

“Some people have a lucky rabbit's good, or a lucky coin, but here in Goodhue, we have a lucky Button. Tugs Button.”

“And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

“At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day.Then I knew what the problem was.I needed experience.How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?”

“People do what they have to do to survive, and if they’re lucky, they just might find something worth living for.”

“I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.”