I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.

You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.