“Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.”

You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

People are always ruining things for you.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.

Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.

I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.

We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.

Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with, you’re just gonna end up lonely.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.

We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.