Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.