“No man is an island...”

“Man kann sich über jeden lustig machen, der unglücklich ist, man muss nur grausam genug sein.”

“And now here Annie was, allowing her day to become gloriously colored by a communication from a man she'd never even met.”

“Is it possible to want to divorce a man simply because he doesn't want to be rude about Ginger Spice? I rather fear it might be.”

“If you haven't heard him...man, it's like he boiled down down all the melancholy in the world, all the bruises and all the fucked-up dreams you've let go, and poured the essence into a little tiny bottle and corked it up.”

“Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am...”

“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.”