Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.

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.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up

I think every person in a group has a right to protest something and not like something. I always find it to be interesting when people take that position before they've seen it.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Do the best you can and never stop.

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'