“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls… Even when they're being kind… especially when they're being kind.”

“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”

“When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.”

“If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.”

“Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.”

“I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.”

“The automatic assumption that everything a unionist does is wrong is not good for us. Like, how could everything that unionists do be wrong? I mean, they're not a special people. They're not a kind of special bad people.”

“When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.”

“Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.”

“Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.”