I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

All the talk used to be about doing people good, now it is about doing people

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.