Famous revolutionary, ' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon.

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.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.

If it is light, leave it white.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.