To have a sexual history did not only imply one had made love to a succession of people, it also suggested one had either rejected or been rejected b… - Alain de Botton

"what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it