It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

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.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.