Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

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.

Love is a gamble and sometimes it hurts, but whether you win or lose being in love is a beautiful thing.

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

Some people are like egg. The more you apply heat to them, the harder they become. To hatch them, just use a gentle heat, and to keep them alive, just keep them cool.

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

Lost are only those who abandon themselves.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.