"Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers."

“Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.”

“Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.”

“Football, bloody hell!”

“The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.”

“My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."”

“We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.”

“All gave some, Some gave all.”

Source : Song: Some Gave All, Album: Some Gave All, 1992

“You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way...you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.