Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

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

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

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