You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.