No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.

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 Christmas memories you make this year will be the ones you remember in the years to come.

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

The very rich only admire themselves

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.