Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.