As sympathy broadens, it also shallows.
Jun 282013
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
May 132013
We all want to be happy, just not at the expense of the qualities that make us unhappy.
Apr 242013
Personality varies like men’s fashion — a quarter-inch of width in the tie or length in the cuff.
Apr 192013
So much to unlearn, so little time.
Apr 112013
No one hates or envies insincerely.
Apr 102013
The lives of desperation that most men lead at least used to be quiet.
Apr 012013
We laugh at novels in which the weather tracks the moods of the characters, yet our own moods mostly track the weather.
Feb 252013
We are more like our contemporaries than we imagine, and less like our ancestors.
Feb 222013
Expertise makes one peremptory, but peremptoriness does not make one expert.
Feb 212013
The wise are all alike, but every fool is foolish in his own way.