Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

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.

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.

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

Failure is the greatest teacher.

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

I want all my pain to count for something.

If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don't know. I'm not a fortuneteller to tell you what's going to happen.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.

Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

Everybody's got their problems. The important thing is not to complain about it.