At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

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.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.