There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

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.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

Islam is an evil and wicked religion.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

I always figure I'm not unique, and something that would please me hopefully would please a lot of other people that have the same tastes that I do.

Every single night I'm nervous.

It's just people trying to get on TV, not like it's really going to do them any good since people can just watch me.