Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel