We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.