“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”

“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”

“The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.”

“There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.”

“The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.”

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”