Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

.. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never gets the chance.

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.