The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

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.

The highest heaven is not in the sky, it is in the human mind.

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

Go to where the ducks are. Forget the duck calls. If you go where the ducks are coming, you're going to shoot more ducks.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

There is no almost in giving your all.