The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.