“A gray V-neck pullover from Gap. I have 30 of them.” — Alain de Botton Quote

“A gray V-neck pullover from Gap. I have 30 of them.”

“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.”

“In a sprint you make 100 decisions a second. What if X goes now and Y goes then? Should I take this gap or that one? You have to be sharp. Over time it becomes instinct.”

“There's not really a gap between my comedy and my art; it's all the same thing.”

“The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.”