Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.

Sing swan, Spring swan then lets fly.Follow the pretty bird across the sky.Call swan, Fall swan, then lets rest.Tucked in the branches of your quiet nest.

The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.