"Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning...." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.”

“And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.”

“I am like a blind pig when I work.”

“I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.”

“Oft have I heard that grief softens the mindAnd makes it fearful and degenerate.”

“I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.”

“I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?”

“I have recall. I don't know why or how. I had a guy once who said he played against me in novice [league, for kids under nine], for the Detroit Lasers. And I said, "Oh yeah, we beat you in the tournament, 8-1 and I think I scored seven goals, and the goalie was left-handed." And he was, "Oh my God. I was the goalie!" .”

“I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.”