“It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.”

“Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?”

“Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go.”

“So why sit around wasting time dwelling on what could have gone wrong? Shouldn't we be celebrating all the things that went right?”

“Were it not for the melanin in our skin, myoglobin in our muscles and haemoglobin in our blood, we would be the colour of mitochondria. And, if this were so, we would change colour when we exercised or ran out of breath, so that you could tell how energized someone was from his or her colour.”

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”