“As well you try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women.”

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

“Governments are trying to wrestle, how do you censor without being so heavy-handed that you make people really, you know, can't live their lives.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

“You cannot expect to keep receiving without giving something back, or paying the price for every pleasure that you wish to enjoy.”

“You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.”

“You are a smart man, Ira, but sometimes I think you do not understand women very well.”

“Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. ”

“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”