I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

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.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

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.