Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

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

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

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

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.