Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

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

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

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

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.