I've been taken for far more rides
to places I've never been,
stabbed so many times in the back
I no longer feel a thing.
Oh, ask me what all this has taught me
and I'll tell you what I'll say:
"Hold on to what you got
and don't let it slip away.
Save it for a rainy day." 
"Hold On To What You Got" (song) 
Gilbert O'Sullivan,  "Hold On To What You Got" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YYinfmOUI (song on YouTube) 
 (+ Live performance in Japan, 1992.  On YouTube)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrmDG7frD4 
Song lyrics
                                    
“All through the years, I've had many interests.”
            The New York Times interview (1994) 
Context: All through the years, I've had many interests. I always wanted to write a swashbuckler; I still do. I love Westerns. I wrote a western called "Journal of the Gun Years," which won the Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. It had been written some time ago and rejected by every publisher, perhaps because I had been cast in the science fiction mold. I finished writing a combination western and horror story indigenous to the period. And horror takes many forms: Indians had their own superstitions based on things that they didn't understand. In a way, I like to be confusing by combining genres.
I've always been fascinated by parapsychology, and I think that we've all lived before. In "The Path" I've explored that and a few other age-old questions like why are we here and what's our purpose in life.
        
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Richard Matheson 58
American fiction writer 1926–2013Related quotes
Sam Smith (February 14, 2000) "Bird's Flight Path May End at Boston", Chicago Tribune, p. 12.
                                        
                                        GG Allin on The Jane Whitney Show July 16. 1993. 
On The Jane Whitney Show
                                    
                                        
                                        Source: A Soldier Reports (1976), p. 396. 
Context: As any television viewer or newspaper reader could discern the end in South Vietnam, in April 1975, came with incredible suddenness, amid scenes of unmitigated misery and shame. Utter defeat, panic, and rout have produced similar demoralizing tableaux through the centuries; yet to those of us who had worked so hard and long to try to keep it from ending that way, who had been so markedly conscious of the deaths and wounds of thousands of Americans and the soldiers of other countries, who had so long stood in awe of the stamina of the South Vietnamese soldier and civilian under the mantle of hardship, it was depressingly sad that so much misery should be a part of it. So immense had been the sacrifices made through so many long years that the South Vietnamese deserved an end- if it had to come to that- with more dignity to it.
                                    
“I have no apprehension whatsoever. I've been through this so many times.”
                                        
                                         September 2007 interview, promoting Cassandra's Dreams http://www.film.com/play/cassandrasdreamwoodyalleninterview/16265462. 
Context: I have no apprehension whatsoever. I've been through this so many times. And I found that one way or the other, your life doesn't change at all. Which is sad, in a way. Because the people love your film... nothing great happens. And people hate your film... nothing terrible happens. Many years ago, I would... I would... a film of mine would open, and it would get great reviews, and I would go down and look at the movie theater. There'd be a line around the block. And when a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares. They're not interested. They've got their own lives, and their own problems, and their own shadows on their lungs, and their x-rays. And, you know, they've got their own stuff they're dealing with.... So, I'm just never nervous about it.
                                    
“If I heeded all the advice I've had over the years, I'd have written 18 books about Rincewind.”
Usenet
                                        
                                        Washington Minute, CSPAN, , quoted in * 2011-03-19 
GOP Rep. Todd Akin On Social Security: ‘I Don’t Like It’ 
Alex 
Seitz-Wald 
Think Progress 
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/19/151641/todd-akin-i-dont-like-social-security/