What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

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

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.