“You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.”

“As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.”

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”

“You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“To bring order into this jangled sphere man must find its centre" Marshall McLuhan”

“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”