“Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.”

“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.”

“Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.”

“We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?”

“(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who are happy should look happy, at all times, no matter how much money they have or how uncomfortable their shoes are or how little their child is sleeping; and people who are doing OK but have still not found their soul-mate should look, I don't know, anxious, like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally; and people who are desperate should wear something, a yellow ribbon maybe, which would allow them to be identified by similar desperate people. ”

“It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.”

“If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements..”