What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.

All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’ I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated. ‘I know what you look like.

Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter. ‘I haven’t really noticed,’ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.