He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended.

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.

We cause havoc to our society when we only preach miracles.

As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.

We all have our strengths and our failings.

As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.

(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.