Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

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.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.