Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

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

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

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

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.