Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

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

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?

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.