"There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else."

“A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”

“You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.”

“I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie.”

“My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.”

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.64, Open Road Media

“There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.”

“God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.”

“The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.”

“I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!”