We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.