To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.