“If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.”
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
“No need to steal someone’s thunder, with Cosmic Ordering you can make your own.”
“I have never heard any of your lectures, but from what I can learn I should say that for people who like the kind of lectures you deliver, they are just the kind of lectures such people like. Yours respectfully, O. Abe.”
“[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.”
“That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”