It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

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.

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.