You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.

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.

Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.

The unnatural - that too is natural.

Take risks: if you win you will be happy if you lose you will be wise.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.