There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.