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 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."

"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."

"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."

"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."