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

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.