Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

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.

CA means Challenge it, Achieve it, Loop it. I am a Chartered Accountant.

Her sudden grin depleted some of his brain cells. She was evil like that.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

What does your gut tell you?" "My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each other

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.