“Stop complaining about the price of your gas. Be thankful your car doesn't run on bottled water.”

“If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.”

“An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.”

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

“Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water.”

“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.”

“We come to this world and leave after a certain amount of time so does the friendship nothing stays forever who ever thinks that way is just lying to himself just because your car is working now doesn’t mean it won’t run out of gas.”

“(Sylvia to character in book she is reading, Death by) Get out of that tub! Get in your car and get out of there! (Character) Suddenly I felt compelled to get out of that tub and out of that motel. I dressed and hopped in my car. Later I stopped for gas, and met a great guy. We got married and raise cocker spaniels.”

“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”

“Thank you Joe Nobody for giving me your expert opinion on what missile sounds like, because gas station superintendents are usually the best people to ask about the sonic signature of ballistic missile thrust.”