“There's a whole lot of people don't seem to understand that you have to talk to a man in his own language before he'll take you seriously.”

“How many friends do you really have, seriously? You people… like "I have lots of friends." You don't. You have a lot of shallow relationships with people that talk behind your back and you call that drama a life because you hate your job.”

“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”

“Most people think I have a lot of fun and that I'm a pretty good driver but they don't take my driving all that seriously.”

“I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.”

“But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.”

“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?”

“My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

“Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.”

“It's a good thing a lot of people speak foreign languages, otherwise those people would have no one to talk to.”