There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

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

Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.