“I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.”

“If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.”

“The campaign was disgusting. It split on religious lines. It was one of those moments when you thought that ‘if politics is going to be like this, I’d like to go and do something else’.”

“I’d like it if people thought I was Jewish-looking.”

“The years passed, and sometimes just before I … I awoke, I’d hear music going on inside my head. I’d lie perfectly still, not moving, not waking, and the music would spread all through my body, just as it had done at the pyramids outside Mexico City. Finally I’d leap out of bed and start writing like a madman. Ten, twelve, fifteen hours a day. It was just pouring out of me. It was limitless!”

“I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I’d just hate it.”

“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.”

“Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”

“Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph”

“I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”