Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

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.

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

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

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