Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

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.

A book can not control you when you are the writter.

This is what I like, " said Jesse. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world.

Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.

The truth is in the kisses.