“What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.”

“You don’t see the world the way other people do. And when you let your guard down, the way you think, the way you say things… you make people look at things differently. You make people feel things.”

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

“There’s the way things should be, and then there’s the way things are. Things will never be the way they should be as long as people keep saying that’s just the way things are. If everyone got together and ensured that things were the way they should be, then eventually the way things are would be the way they should be. Of course, that will never happen. That’s just the way things are.”

“What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”