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

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.