“I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.”

“I said I thought she had a very fine voice.She nodded. 'I know. I'm going to be a professional singer.''Really? Opera?''Heavens, no. I'm going to sing jazz on the radio and make heaps of money. Then, when I'm thirty, I shall retire and live on a ranch in Ohio.”

“I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.”

“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.”

“If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”

“You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled, what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and—well, we iron things out together, that's all.”

“I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”