A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

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

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

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

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.