It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

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.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

Is it romantic or psychotic when I say I'll never let you leave me?

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Everybody needs to laugh and have fun and feel good.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.