Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling.

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 idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric.

We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.

I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

I want someone to love me, for who I am; I want someone to need me, is that so bad?

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.