“Mutual understanding is of critical importance. There are those who say that ‘understanding’ is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings”

“Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.”

“On the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.”

“So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”

“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”

“The world's full of groundless ill will. I'll never understand it, you'll never understand it, but it exists all the same.”

“It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.”