The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

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.

Focus on exploring your intrinsic strengths, so as not to loose out on the virtues of life.

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

Aristotle said, Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Isn't that a three-way?

Have you ever considered that there isn't a safe time to be around you?

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?

Hunger not to have, but to be

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.