There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

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.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Your highest female grace is silence.

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I am really just writing about real life.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.