You are bound to pick up influences.
Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.
There is no such thing in life as normal.
Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.