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.

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-

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

Run wild and free like a waterfall

How much does an elephant weigh?

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

Hey, it's your birthday ?. Sit back, relax and enjoy it ? you've earned it! Have a Great One.

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.