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

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.