“-"Great! Fucking! News! What would be the best thing that could ever happen?”-“If after I died, I was reincarnated as Meg White?”-“Okay, the second-best thing.”

“If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened.”

“That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.”

“Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David”

“Best thing that ever happened to me, that shredded washer," he whispered."Too bad I didn't know what a washer was or I would have shredded it myself," I whispered back and he burst out laughing.”

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”