The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

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

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.