“Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down/And they all led me straight back home to you.”

“I once knew a man who said death smiles at us all,A man can only smile back”

“Win the crowd and you will win your freedom”

“Riddle me this - she is my daughter but I am not her father: who am I?I am a step parent. Ah, but I don't really believe in the term step-parent. I don't think the role exists. Not really. For either in the end you are either a child's parent or you are not. And blood does not have a lot do to with it.”

“I have this theory about divorce. I have a theory that is never a tragedy for adults and always a tragedy for children. Adults can lose weight, find someone nicer, get their life back. Divorce gives grown-ups a get-out-of-jail-free card. It is the children who pay the price, and pay it for the rest of their lives. But we can't admit that, all us scarred veterans of the divorce court, because it would mean admitting that we have inflicted wounds on our children that they will carry for the rest of their lives.”

“In silvergreen rainy April they went down to Glastonbury on the long straight roads ...”

“Dirt washes off more easily than blood”