Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare..

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids..

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?.

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

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies whic….

Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the ….

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion..

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost ….

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work..

It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some ….

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol..

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself..

What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so..

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents..

That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisf….