"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."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"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."
"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."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."