“When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?”

“A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?”

“Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her—when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”

“A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.”

“No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be.”

“Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.”

“If a man wants to marry me now, it should be more convenient when he just wants to beat me.”

“This guy doesn't want to be caught. He doesn't want to play around. He's not Son of Sam and he's not even the LA Hillside Stranger. He doesn't want notoriety. That's why he's going to all these length to dispose of these people in the way that he has.”

“From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette”

“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”