“You see, this war came to us, not the other way around.”

“A lot of people thought it was me everyone at the 'Factory' was hanging around, that I was some kind of big attraction that everyone came to see, but that's absolutely backward: it was me who was hanging around everyone else. I just paid the rent, and the crowds came simply because the door was open. People weren't particularly interested in seeing me; they were interested in seeing each other. They came to see who came.”

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”

“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”

“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.”

“We don’t exploit other groups, we don’t gain anything from their presence. They need us, and not the other way around.”

“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”

“What if they gave a war and no one came? Then the war will come to you.”

“Many kinds of processes are at work in the world around us, and they are all superimposed on, and interact with, each other in complicated ways.”