Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - a... - Alain de Botton

"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."

"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 moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

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