“They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.”
“There's so much about girls I don't understand. I don't know how I'm old enough to kiss them but not old enough to talk to them.”
“Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.”
“I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.”
“If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.”
“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”