The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.