“To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.”

“Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.”

“It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.”

“You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.”

“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”

“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”

“The government means industry, if you know what I mean.”

“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”