Writer

Agen perjalanan akan lebih bijak untuk bertanya kepada kami apa yang kami harapkan untuk dapat mengubah hidup kami daripada sekadar bertanya ke mana kami ingin pergi.

I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

Beberapa alasan mengapa kita menikahi orang yang salah adalah bahwa kita tidak benar-benar memahami diri kita sendiri.

Tidak ada yang menyebalkan seperti keseimbangan kehidupan kerja. Segala sesuatu layak diperjuangkan untuk mengacaukan hidup Anda

Saya sadar mencoba meregangkan batasan penulisan non-fiksi. Saya selalu terkejut betapa sedikit perhatian yang diberikan banyak penulis non-fiksi pada aspek formal karya mereka.

I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.

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 work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent.

I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

Keintiman adalah kemampuan untuk menjadi agak aneh dengan seseorang - dan menemukan bahwa itu tidak masalah bagi mereka.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

In the early days of love sometimes, you will report an ecstatic feeling you have met someone who seems to understand you without you needing to speak.

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.