Gunter Grass Quotes

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

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.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

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

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.