Now we have a gig economy where many people are holding down several jobs at once. The whole concept of a 40-hour week makes people under 30 laugh.

If you're in the mood for a blushing art house romance, you'll fall for it, too.

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

We know that people who work without breaks get tired, introduce errors, get sick and miss out on life. Make no mistake: those staff room hammocks are designed to keep you in them on the weekend.

Depart from the deeds of darkness. Return to path of light.

When we talk about our problems, we create more of them. When we talk about solutions and positive responses, we create more solutions and positive responses.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.