“It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.”

“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.”

“You understand it's not a matter of strategy. I'm not talking about secrets or deceptions. I'm talking about being yourself. If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.”

“If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”

“That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.”