“There aren't many things I don't want to experience in life, but the sensual caress of a parent going through mid-life crisis is one of them.”

“There is absolutely no reason why we have to deal with the mid-life crisis of our social policies by putting a bullet through their heads.”

“I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!”

“Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee,
Trembling I waken to a mystery,
How through one door we go to life or death
By spirit kindled or the sensual breath.”

“No one ever wanted to see it as anything other than a boring play about a middle-aged man having a mid-life crisis. I think it’s about rather more than that - or maybe it’s not. Maybe that’s exactly what it is about.”

“People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.”

“The mid-life crisis is when we think that work is what gives meaning to our lives.”

“Children go to school because their parents don't want them in the house.”

“God is still around. One day, you're going to need him. The problems of life will begin to overwhelm you; disappointments will begin to beat upon the door of your life like a tidal wave. And if you don't have a deep and patient faith, you aren't going to be able to make it. I know this from my own experience.”

“I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream…and life continues…”