It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

To fix hearts one must know one's own.

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

What do we want from each other after we have told our stories

If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Ive lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that theres so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.