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

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

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