It certainly is a puzzle.” He turned back to the broken road. “But sometimes to find the answer, you have to take a leap of faith.

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought.

We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.

Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'