.. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never gets the chance.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.