Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

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.