Occupation: Writer Birth: December 20, 1969
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice..
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..
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions..
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and ….
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days..
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wan….
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour….
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt ps….
Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers ….
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or ….
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury..
The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a….
The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our so….
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful)….
One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone..
The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously st….
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I wa….
What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus i….
Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than t….
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's th….
Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation..