Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

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.

Nothing is easier than yesterday's solutions.

Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I do stuff that I don't even know I can do sometimes.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

You guys are related to Jonah Wizard?" Jake asked, his lip curled disdainfully. "And the other guy," Dan grumbled. "Vin Diesel's stunt double.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.

He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.