A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in.

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.

You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’ I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated. ‘I know what you look like.

You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal.

It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

I like cream cheese in just about anything.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

If we believe in a theology that doesn't contain doing the works of Jesus, we will not have a practice of Signs & Wonders.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.