I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen, - Robert Galbraith

We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.

Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for the institution.

Frankly, anybody who's going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place.