Her voice is so soft. If it were a food item, it’d be a marshmallow.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody’s ever been young like we are right at this moment.

When you’re with a girl, it’s always best to act like you’re an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.

That’s what the prom is—St. Patrick’s Day for the young.

Learn to control the conversation you have with yourself and you will be unstoppable in your pursuits.

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

Sounds mean nothing without music.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.