“Why should youngsters get butterflies in their stomachs while working with me when my condition too is no different from theirs?”

“To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.”

“Leaves me with no choice but to laugh. I am pretty sure these are not the pre-wedding jitters or butterflies in the stomach my married cousins were talking about!”

“What does an enamored butterfly say? «Feels like I have humans in my stomach.»”

“We shared a common tongue, but my language was a different language from theirs.”

“The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”

“When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.”

“He’s been off-line for the best part of six hours and is getting a panicky butterfly stomach at the idea of not being in touch with everything that’s happened in the last twenty kiloseconds.”

“There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.”

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”