People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.