It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.