David Milch Quotes

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I learned from my past.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Looking back on high school, I just remember specific scenarios and thinking, wow, that was such a big deal at the time, but right now it feels like it never even happened. So I guess if I can give any advice, I would just say that everything will pass, and it'll feel like it was a big deal over nothing.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.