“Of course, most people will insist on defending their personal ego and they will do so blindly, even daring to hurt and ignore the interests of other people.”

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

“Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.”

“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”

“Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.”

“People often don't talk about other people's thoughts and feelings. Many people don't even care. And when they do, they usually speak from a completely different point of view. How difficult it is for us to escape from the prison of subjectivity. From personal ego. From prejudice and assessment of profit and loss which basically only puts forward self-interest. How difficult it is to accept other people without having to consider who they really are. Why can't we escape from the burden of selflessness. Why is it difficult to do good solely for the good itself.”

“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.”

“Even the parts within you that seem to be hurting you, are actually doing so because they think it is in your best interest.”

“People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.”

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”