One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

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

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.