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

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.