What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.

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