Reading begets reading.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.

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.

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.