Graeme Simsion quotes:

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.

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the way a bricks-and-mortar store and its staff can.

Interestingly for me, modern rom coms have not always been funny - many of the iconic rom coms are more like light dramas with occasional comedic moments, often coming from secondary character.

Time's up. Excellent work. All the rational solutions came from the aspies. Everyone else was incapacitated by emotion."

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.

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

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

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

You can't go through life not listening to music.

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.

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?"

What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.

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

I have a theory that everyone is as odd as I am when they are alone. Don Tillman

A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.

I haven't changed my mind. That's the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it's totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there's no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.

I watched as Humphrey Bogart's character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman's character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn't. I didn't care. I had enough problems of my own.

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.' This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of.

So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.