We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.

The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.