“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”

“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”

“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”

“Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.”

“Chances are where you find them”

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”