I Am Basically A Complainer And All

High Standards Generally -- About Workmanship And Creation Of Objects, About What Is Owed In Friendship, About The Quality Of Art And Much Else -- Far From Being Snobbish, Are Required To Maintain Decency In Life.

Within This Realm Of Choicelessness, We Do Choose How We Live.

I Am Married To Someone I Love.

Generalization, Especially Risky Generalization, Is One Of The Chief Methods By Which Knowledge Proceeds... Safe Generalizations Are Usually Rather Boring. Delete That "usually Rather." Safe Generalizations Are Quite Boring.

Culture Means, I Think, That You Have Widened Your Experience Enough Through Reading And Through Being A Little Bit Thoughtful About These Things That It Has Changed Your Outlook In Some Ways. And Not Necessarily Made You A Better Human Being But Made You See Things.