Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.