I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

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

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

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

Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.