A good half of the art of living is resilience.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

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

Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.