It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

I have a really low boredom threshold.

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah, see, what you do is you can take the 'memory' of the diluted substance out of the water electromagnetically, put it on your computer, email it, and play it back on a sound card into new water. I mean, that could work, right?