There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.