We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

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 whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.

I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.

Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it.

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.