“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

“I don't know much about this thing called logistics. All I know is that I want some.”

“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.”

“I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.”

“In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.”

“Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”

“All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I don't know what it is, I don't know who it is, but maybe there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again. I need to know what that thing might be, but I don't want to. Whatever it is, it comes from outside this house, outside the yard, and it can come right on in the yard if it wants to. So I never leave this house and I watch over the yard, so it can't happen again and my mother won't have to kill me too.”

“I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want”

“I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.”

“I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.”