“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

“And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.”

“The hard part is discriminating between factual reporting and journalistic fiction. Last year at the National Press Club I said out loud and in public [C-SPAN was there] that the difference between me and a lot of reporters is that I do good fiction. Some were polite enough to chuckle.”

“Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.”

“Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!”

“I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.”

“I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.”

“The garden is a raging sea,
The hurricane is snarling;
Oh, happy you and happy me!
Isn't the lightning darling?”

“She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?”
“I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.””

“The problem isn't that the world isn't fair enough. It is, we aren't truthful enough.”