When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with, ' William said.

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.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.