Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

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.

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Bless be the ones who serve others. They are the ones who find heaven on earth.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in.

If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do.