I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.