It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.

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.

The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

Do not find faults, only forgive.

Most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul.

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin.

Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.

I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.