​​​​​​You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.

You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it's at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, 'Ah. There they are.' And suddenly you feel at home.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

"You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person'" "But, I’m not." "How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?"

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.