Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

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

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

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

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

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.