“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ”

“I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.”

“Sometimes all you have is instinct, a gut feeling. It's important to pay attention to them.”

“I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.”

“People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to”

“Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.”