“The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.”

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”

“We don’t know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.”

“What do you think it is to be normal?'Why in the world would you want to be?' she says.I don't know. I guess that's the problem.'I don't think normal is that great.'But so many people choose it,' I reply.I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.'Well, why do we choose the hard road?”

“I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.”

“I don't think you can very well give people as presents: they might not like it.”