“For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I’ve never looked back on it with anything but joy.”

You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.