“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.”

“It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me”

“They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly. …All that I've done is to say what's on other peoples' mind.”

“After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?'

'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?'

'Because I have just called you contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.”

“I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me. I don't let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.”

“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”

“A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.”

“I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me,
I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.”