"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
"The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be."
"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."