Actual artists are like mythological creatures, ' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.

As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.

But what if time worked the other way around?What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?

And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?

There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.

Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.

Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-

No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the cataclysms, of ordinary life.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Are you familiar with that play?In fact, we're almost living it!

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

If there's a way to serve America, I'd always consider it.

If you give me wings I will soar for you Even if this whole land Sinks down to the water If you give me a sword I will fight for you Even if this whole sky Shoots through with your light