“And I don't want to mean anything to you,
I don't want to tempt you to be true.”

“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true”

“But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.”

“Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.”

“but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly… glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.”

“I don't want the world. I want you.”

“I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?”

“People don't want to be understood — I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.”

“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it”

“They say, 'you mean it's just sounds?' thinking that for something to just be a sound is to be useless, whereas I love sounds just as they are, and I have no need for them to be anything more than what they are. I don't want them to be psychological. I don't want a sound to pretend that it's a bucket or that it's president or that it's in love with another sound. I just want it to be a sound.”