... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clus-ters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.

Everybody is as unstable as water.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.