Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."

"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."

"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."

"One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."

"We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease."

"To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could."

"It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge."