Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'