We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

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 problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

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