More quotes by Alain de Botton

"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."