Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

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.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

...if I don't look after my body, I'll have nowhere to live.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.