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We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even...

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me,...

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Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot....

When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

I remember going to university, and the people who'd left home for the first time looked at the food and were horrified. Whereas, my view was that if it was vaguely edible, then it's fine.

There's a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.

Love is something that we need to learn.

Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be...

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.

I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

A gray V-neck pullover from Gap. I have 30 of them.

My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.

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