Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.

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 I see you smile, I feel a volcano of magical eruptions happening within my heart!

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

There is no fyre without some smoke.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything.

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.