166 Quotes by Graeme Simsion

Gli esseri umani spesso non riescono a cogliere ciò che li riguarda più da vicino, benché agli altri quello stesso elemento appaia invece palese.

Exactly,’ I said. ‘You think people see you as a Casanova. You know what? I don’t care what other people think of you, but, if you want to know, they think you’re a jerk. And they’re right, Gene. You’re fifty-six years old with a wife and two kids, though for how much longer I don’t know. Time you grew up. I’m telling you that as a friend.

So why the stress?" said Gene. “You have had sex before?”“Of course,” I said. “My doctor is strongly in favor.”“Frontiers of medical science,” said Gene.He was probably making a joke. I think the value of regular sex has been known for some time. I explained further. “It’s just adding a second person makes it complicated.

I was not wired to feel love. And faking it was not acceptable. Not to me. I had feared that Rosie would not love me. Instead, it was I who could not love Rosie.

I had learned that people with irrational beliefs in one domain could be sensible and reliable in others.

I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in ‘Lost in Space’ and ‘Star Trek’ were probably not representative of humans in general.

This was becoming ridiculous. Vast numbers of questions were unanswered, vast amounts of information needed to be exchanged, and now Claudia was introducing further topics. It was fortunate that I was among friends and family, or I would have had some sort of brain-overload-related breakdown. We needed to prioritize the issues to deal with them one by one.

A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.