Matt Haig Quotes

People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

How to stop time: kiss.How to travel in time: read.How to escape time: music.How to feel time: write.How to release time: breathe.

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

And for three weeks I was trapped in my own mind again. But this time, I had weapons. One of them, maybe the most important, was this knowledge: I have been ill before, then well again. Wellness is possible.

Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.