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A Picnic May Well Be A Metaphor For Life. The Essentials For Happiness Are The Right Company, Moderate If Sanguine Expectations And A Reasonable Standard Of Physical Sustenance And Comfort, The Whole Being Bedeviled By The Belief That There Is Always Something Better To Be Had If Only One Presses On.

All These Problems [deciding Cases] Are Easier For People Who Believe In God. Those Of Us Who Don't Or Can't Have To Do The Best We Can. That's What The Law Is, The Best We Can Do. Human Justice Is Imperfect, But It's The Only Justice We Have.

I Thought Of Inviting You To My Other Club But You Know How It Is. Lunching There Is A Useful Way Of Reminding People That You're Still Alive, But The Members Will Come Up And Congratulate You On The Fact.

Ambition, If It Were To Be Savored, Let Alone Achieved, Had To Be Rooted In Possibility.

I Still Occasionally Need To Struggle But I Now Fear It Less. The Weapons I Fight It With Are Also My Consolations: Books, Music, Food, Wine, Nature.