“When you leap from a cliff, it is too late for anything but holding to your courage. And hoping there's a haywain at the bottom to land in.”

“It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

“When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.”

“Eleanor: I'm tired, John, am asking you to keep this charade mercifully brief… for my sake if not for your own.
John: For your sake? There was a time when I'd have done anything on God's Earth for you, just to get to acknowledge I was even alive! But now? You're too late, Mother, years too late!”

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

“But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.”

“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”

“I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.”

“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”