Must being in love always mean being in pain?

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.

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

To keep your sanity, when everything seems like it's going wrong, focus on the one thing that's going right!

And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

Before the Apocalypse, the closest I'd gotten to death was buying steaks at the supermarket.

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine.