It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.