As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

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

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

.. 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.

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.