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

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

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.