Occupation: Writer Birth: December 20, 1969
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster..
The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who w….
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love fr….
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide..
Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent..
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness fr….
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might prev….
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful….
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have though….
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole..
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their wo….
We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And….
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….
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the a….
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning..
Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable ….
If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our….
For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort o….
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identifie….
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy..
I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, ind….