William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-

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.

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.

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.

It is easier to define whether or not you can afford something than whether you need it in the first place.

The three l’s of being are life, light and love.

A lot of acting is private time.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

I love maxi dresses, I feel so great when I put on a maxi dress, big earrings and sandals.

Yes, design can make you happy.