“Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.”

“The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act.- Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.”

“...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...”

“In California we believe that most anxiety can be traced to a purely physical cause.Which can be traced to a purely mental cause.Which can be traced to a purely spiritual cause.Which can probably be traced back to a physical cause. Et cetera.”

“The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.”

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”