Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

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

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

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

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