You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

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.

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

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

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.