It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.
One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.
Opportunity does not need to be exactly equal. It needs only to exist. For the talented and motivated, that will be enough. . . The vital thing is not to maximize everyone's performance, but to ensure maximal performance from the most talented, the ones who can make a difference.
Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.
Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.
The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind. . . . . . but he won't.
Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.
I find Donald Trump so haphazard, and that keeps me up at night.
We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.