One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.