To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Paul AusterEighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
Paul AusterEscaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.
Paul AusterSomething happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.
Paul Auster