If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.