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

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.”

“But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”

“I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?”

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

“But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.”

“I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.”

“People who take things too literally don't get much of anything from my teaching. By never saying anything I mean, I say a great deal. I never mean anything I say under oath. I never mean exactly what I say. Not even this. You have to read between the words.”

“Friendship… is not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.”