Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

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

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

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.