Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

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

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.