Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right