Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

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 of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.