The possibility of pain is where love stems from

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.