“I’d say, “That’s it, Charlie, you’re going to be by yourself for a hundred years.””

“You’re not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.”

“I think that if I’m still here in ten thousand years, I’m going to be crazy as hell. Ten thousand years, pal! Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. You really think you’re going to be anything recognizably human in a hundred centuries?”

“You dare speak to me in such an insolent manner?'

'Stop talking like you’re two hundred years old. You’re sixteen, just like me.”

“You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.”

“You’re saying God is all made up, but okay, who cares? People say, “I can’t pray because I feel like I’m talking to myself.” The rabbi would say, “Pray! That’s so good. Go talk to yourself.””

“You’re not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.”

“Even if you lose yourself in wrath
for a hundred thousand years,
at the end you will discover,
it is me, who is the culmination of your dreams.”

“Everybody will try to knock you down but only you can see where you’re going, so you must be strong, believe in yourself and keep going.”

“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”