People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.