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

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."

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

"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."

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

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