Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

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.

What is the point of having all this power if you can’t force people to do what you want?

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.

Food nourishes you, brings people together, and I feel that anybody can bond over food.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.