“I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. I guess that means I've grown up now…”

“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”

“I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.”

“When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.”

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”

“Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.”

“To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.”

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.”

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”

“When I was growing up here in the wild west, if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married, and the whole darned neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn't allow that sort of thing to happen, you know? I mean, they wanted that child to be brought up in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story. And so I happen to believe that can happen again.”