Paterson * Quotes

"When you're a child you learn there are three dimensions: height, width and depth... like a shoebox. Then later you hear there's a fourth dimension: time."

"I go through trillion of molecules that move aside to make way for me, while on both sides trillions more stay where they are."

Japanese Poet: "A bus driver in Paterson. A-ha."
Paterson: "A-ha, what?"
Japanese Poet: "This very poetic."

"Without love, what reason is there for anything?"

Paterson: "I'm working on a poem for you."
Laura: "A love poem?"
Paterson: "Yeah, I guess if it's for you it's a love poem."

"All your poems are still in that one notebook, your secret notebook."
[to Paterson]

Paterson: "Morning, Donny. Everything okay?"
Donny: "No, not really. My kid needs braces on her teeth, my car needs a transmission job, my wife wants me to take her to Florida but I'm behind on the mortgage payments, my uncle called from India and he needs money for my niece's wedding and I got this strange rash on my back. Who about you?"
Paterson: "I'm okay."
Donny: "Ready to roll, Paterson?"
Paterson: "Yeah."