The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.

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.

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.