It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

So how's the putrid pile of caca doing?

Once we forget those who have contributed time and effort in making an endeavor successful, we forget ourselves.

Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.