And you out there: Aren’t you somehow right here with me?

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.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.