Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.
New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.