Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'