#Leaving

"Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out."

"...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father."

"I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now."

"Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?"

"There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it."

"Things go away to return, brightened for the passage"

"I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones."

"I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer."

"Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave."

"I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done."

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there."

"I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting."

"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

"To leave, after all, was not the same as being left."

"It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay."- China Sorrows -"

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere."

"She doesn’t want me to leave, and she doesn’t want me to stay. That’s a double helping of Doesn’t Want Me, and one big I’m Not Hungry back at her."

"The going rate for love is going away. And the more you go away, the more expensive it gets."

"I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you."