Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

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

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.