Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

I think reality is over-rated

He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others