Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

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.

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.

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself.

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

In our eyes we should be up three to one but we're not

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.