Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Music makes a quiet mind.

The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.