I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

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

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

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?

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.