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

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

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

I know this song!’ Rosie laughed. ‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.