“I don't respect you. You don't deserve it.”

“Those who seek respect without deserving it end up surrounding themselves with flatterers, or people who claim to respect you when they don't.”

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”

“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”

“Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.”

“They don't respect you. It's almost as they think they have the right to your life just because you're a celebrity. I don't accept that.”

“You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.”

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”

“Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.”

“You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.”