My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.
Many think that assigning blame settles matters.
In love as in art, good technique helps.
Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.