He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

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