Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.

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.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.