If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
“Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.”
“You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.”