Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

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

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.